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To: Fred Nerks

It is well known that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.


2 posted on 06/30/2009 6:47:49 PM PDT by donmeaker (Invicto)
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To: donmeaker
When it comes to cities and towns, the best sites persist through thousands of years.

The area where our family found a number of Clovis points was on the East Side of what is now Indianapolis on a small rise that overlooked what was a glacial pothole.

It was probably used as a main campsite circa 14,000 BC when the two mile high glacial mass 10 miles North began melting.

This was a salient in the mass so animals would come there to eat the plentiful grass. Men would hunt them and dine well.

Then the comet came and destroyed that way of life but the Early Woodland culture came to that exact same place ~ I found some points they left. Then later settlements were made and they left their points.

Best I could ever tell the site was inhabited continuously for 2000 years before the comet, and a good 10,000 years after the comet. Today it's just another part of the East Side of Indianapolis, a city that's now nearly 2 centuries old.

Hebron still exists and yet it was an exceptionally early human settlement in that area. Obiously it's a good place for a camp. There'll be something there ten thousand years from now.

5 posted on 06/30/2009 7:30:03 PM PDT by muawiyah
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