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"Some Paleoindians witnessed catastrophic drops in the Great Lakes from levels far above to far below today. They saw a landscape transformed on a scale we can scarcely imagine." "The Midwest," Michael J. Shott |
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The evidence is elusive, rare, and fragile. Archeologists have long sought clues of the continent’s first inhabitants. Now a landmarks study, coupled with a flood of findings, promises to reshape what we know. Entering a landscape undergoing environmental tumult, the first people in the Midwest made great strides with little at hand. Archeologists face a similar challenge in plotting a course to knowledge. With the extraordinary amount of information gathered over the last 15 years, archeologists are looking beyond traditional excavations to learn more about the first people of the Northeast. The research potential is enormous. Questions outnumber answers, but with its evidence of intensive innovation and social development, the Southeast is a well-stocked laboratory for studying the nation’s first peoples.
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