I also wonder at the possibilities that the remains of other great civilizations lie well under water on the Continental Shelves, and bulldozed beneath the moraines and buried in outwash plains of the last ice age.
The puzzle is coming together, but there are a lot of pieces yet to be found.
Letter from Newfoundland: Homing in on the Red Paint People
by Angela M.H. Schuster
Volume 53 Number 3, May/June 2000
http://www.archaeology.org/0005/abstracts/letter.html
Red Paint People: A Lost American Culture
by Bruce Bourque
Because of their greater antiquity than the Mound Builders, and the prejudice in his time against any human presence in the Americas prior to 3000 years ago, this archaeologist was ruined and ridiculed in the usual unscholarly way characteristic of the academic world.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593730381/sunkencivilizati
Camden tool could be 5,000 years old
By Lynda Clancy
Oct 12, 2005
http://knox.villagesoup.com/community/story.cfm?storyID=62109
Red ochre burials: Greater Nicoya and elsewhere
By Frederick W. Lange*
Guanacast Journal, Costa Rica
http://journalcr.com/news_article.php?edition=110&article=2339
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2103322/posts
Archaeologists discover ancient ivory maskette on Canadian Arctic island
Submitted by owenjarus on Thu, 07/08/2010
Recent research, conducted by Dr. Patricia Sutherland, suggests that the Dorset even developed a trading relationship with the Norse who appeared in the Arctic around AD 1000.
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/archaeologists-discover-ancient-ivory-maskette-canadian-arctic-island