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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, January 18, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ice age mystery people still baffle scientists by Mercer Cross National geographic body knows or sure who the ice ago indians were where Hoy came from or How they lived a few answers May to on a Side of a duly Bulle in a desolate Corner of Southeastern Montana. Ii s the site of a Large bed of 11,000-year-old Bison Bones perhaps the oldest such collection Ever found in North Amensa More important is the Provo of Stone and Bona weapons and tools souvenirs of Tho Tail end of the last ice ago. Hal scientists Are aiding around the Rocky bed. Known As Tho Mill lion Silt. It s pretty significant Sli ill says George c Frison. A University of Wyo Mirse anthropologist in Laramie who is one of the country s loading authorities on paleo indians of Iho High Plains you just learn Little bits at a Limo and then finally things atari to come together. This is really coming Togo Lei Nav projectile Points arc la prison what fingerprints Are to Tho Fri he can Letl by the Way a Point is made whether it was shaped by a member of the clevis cultural pm plan about 12,000 years ago of by a Folsom Man nearly 1.000 years Laler. What excites him most Aboul the Mitt Iron Bone bed is that is contains Points made by Goshen people members o a Little understood cultural Complex situated chronologically somewhere Between Clovis and Folsom. Alt these names come irom the Sites where evidence of the complexes was first Lound. Cloves and Folsom Are in new Sci to it s not just a straight line one coming right out of the other says prison whose research has been supported in part by Iho National Autographic society. There Are a lot of things going on among scientists grasping Tor hard evidence of the harsh existence of the Paldo indians he says. Human origins in North America remain a highly disputations subject among scientists. They generally agree that humans Mado in Over Here Horn Asia during the last ice age probably via some kind of land or ice Bridge across Bringia which became the Bering Strait. They agree that Clovis people durable ancestors of today s indians lived there More than 11 centuries ago the distinctive Clovis projectile Point has been described As the easiest trademark of american culture. On the basis of ousting knowledge some anthropologists. Prison among them think that Clovis was the first human on the continent. Others cite evidence based on dating techniques using radioactive Carbon 14, Hal he was preceded by lass developed ancestors Many thousand years earlier. Then along came Goshen a new ingredient of the mystery. In the late 1950s and a  
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