Indigenous People Have Been Here Forever. Why Won't Archeologists Believe It?

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12. Have you met Dr. James Adovasio or

read anything that he has written on the peopling of the Americas?

Adovasio is the archaeologist who supervised the excavation at Meadowcroft Rockshelter in PA, near Pittsburgh. He later became the director of the Archaeogical Institute at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA and eventually became Provost.

Adovasio's techniques were known to be meticulous, yet when he came up with dates as old as 14,000 years ago at Meadowcroft, the archaeology world immediately jumped on his findings and developed numerous alternative "explanations" for the date. Additional scrutiny did not support the alternative claims of layer intrusions from different time periods, but critics of Adovasio clung to that belief.

In one response to his critics, Adovasio referred to them as "the Clovis Mafia" and said that true progress in American archaeology would not develop until the Clovis generation had died off.