Sandweiss in LA Times Report on Archaeological Find
UMaine anthropology professor Dan Sandweiss is quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about a discovery shedding new light on the earliest settlement of the Americas. Texas A&M professor Michael Waters, who spoke at UMaine last fall, is the lead author of a Science article that calls into question the belief that people from the Clovis culture were the first to arrive in the Americas, from Asia, some 13,200 years ago. Waters’ new findings, from a discovery near Buttermilk Creek, Texas, provide evidence of pre-Clovis hunter-gatherers 15,500 years ago. Sandweiss points out in the story that archaeologists have been noticing evidence of pre-Clovis presence but that the evidence had not previously been strong enough to fully support those theories.