More Questions on "Who's On First?" In North America

For a long time, the diggers and bone pickers told us the Clovis People were the first inhabitants in the Americas. Well, so much for that news. The Los Angeles Times reports that a cache of thousands of artifacts from a site near Austin, Texas, predates Clovis materials by 2500 years. That finding moves the settlement of the Americas back to around 16,000 years ago. OTR wonders how long that date will hold. The Clovis conclusion dominated most of the last century.

For more on this fascinating debate on settlement and cultural diffusion, readers can start with the Wikipedia entry on the Clovis culture. And here is a link to OTR's earlier thoughts on "who's on first?" For a technical report on the Buttermilk Creek Complex near Austin, link here.

Hat tip to Michael Yon.