That's a humungous reference list. I thank you.
Lots of archaeological work going on in the Americas. I think it's a function of UNEMPLOYMENT ~ keeps the grad students going out to the field to earn those stipends ~
Now, back to this discovery ~ that's a good one. The chunks with the gold in them are back up the way toward Ontario. They were mostly destroyed "back in the day".
This thing hit the ice right on top of one of Canada's greatest gold bearing regions and stripped off the top layers and blew them all over the Midwest, and probably Mexico, and probably even Northern South America and MesoAmerica.
NO gold of any kind has been found in the bed of former Lake Erie ~ which stretched from West of Fort Wayne Indiana to where it is now. It's there, but no one has dug down the 50 feet or so of muck to get to the Younger Dryas layer. I'm sure it can be done ~ that lake was still there 4,000 years ago BTW so a lot of it is now allegedly dry land. 50 feet guys~! a vast treasure in Canadian gold ~ all in the form of "gold flour".
[’Civ holds up both gloves and struts around the ring]
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