Re: PRE-CLOVIS TOOLS IN MINNESOTA?]



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I seem to recall reading of some artifacts found at the bottom of a
morraine somewhere in that general region, to the SW of the great lakes,
many years ago, during the height of the Clovis-first regime. The
arguments for pre-12ky BP dates for these discoveries were dismissed
by the orthodoxy, it seems to me, with a one-two combination - they
aren't that old, they've been mislocated in the wrong strata, and
besides, they aren't really artefacts, they're just coincidentally
human-worked-looking rubble.

Unfortunately, with this sort of nebulous recollection, I'm not going
to be able to extract sufficient words to locate the site via websearch.
I found three sites from Wisconsin: Mud Lake, Schaefer, and Hebior,
all currently proposed as 15kBP pre-clovis, but they are relatively
recent, and aren't the sub-morraine type I'm recalling. Two are
mammoth butcher sites. Oh, well. Perhaps someone else can recall
this more clearly.

Big Eddy in Missouri, perhaps?

http://www.missouristate.edu/car/7707.htm

http://www.ruralmissouri.org/01pages/augdig.html

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=37.71366&lon=-93.84189&s=500&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG

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Daryl Krupa

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