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Remember when we thought the Clovis people were the first in North America?
I was at a dig in Texas about 8 years ago, helping sift through sediment at the Gault site. We found stone tools under a layer dated to 16,000 years old, way before Clovis. My professor just said 'well, there goes the textbook.' It changed how I look at every new site now, always asking what might be older. What's the biggest 'rewrite the book' find you've worked on?
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anna_price694mo ago
Yeah, total game changer! @kimr91, we got some pushback at first, but the dirt doesn't lie. The dates were solid. It's wild when you hold something that flips the whole story. Makes you question everything you thought you knew.
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kimr914mo ago
Wow, that's an amazing story. So when you found those pre-Clovis tools, did your team have to fight a lot of pushback from other researchers, or was the evidence just too clear to ignore?
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