[blam]

"One of my favorites is the arguments over the most primitive stone tools, i.e., were they naturally or manually chipped?"

Yup. George Carter was continuously finding stone axes, etc. He would take them to archaeologists and they would say that they were manmade stone tools...until, he told them he found them in California. These 'axes' he found came to be known as Carterfacts.

"The most controversial site is Saint Eble, just below Mont Coupet, in southcentral France. Here one finds quartz fragments that look manmade to some archeologists, but seem products of natural fracturing to others. These crude objects are what some American archeologists call "Carterfacts," after G. Carter, who has found similar rock fragments in the Americas and dates them much, much earlier than 12,000 B.P.

[sinanju]

Ahh! But I know of at least one anthropologist who is convinced that Homo Erectus and early hominids DID live in the Americas hundreds of thousands of years ago BEFORE the ice ages but that the great glaciers scoured away all trace of their existence.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

G. Carter, who has found similar rock fragments in the Americas and dates them much, much earlier than 12,000 B.P.

B.P.? WT$ is that??