“If one of Gusick’s core samples contains definitive evidence of a pre-Clovis settlement, it will be the biggest find in Paleoindian archaeology since Edgar Howard plucked his first projectile out of the New Mexican desert. It would tell us, perhaps once and for all, that the first Americans were people of the sea.”
The Search For America’s Atlantis
Ross Andersen | The Atlantic | September 7, 2021 | 5,410 words
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