In mid-1995, a few weeks after I moved my furniture from the farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley to a spacious townhouse near Etowah Mounds, I attended a meeting of the Northwest Georgia Archaeological Society at the Etowah Mounds Museum. The featured speakers were Underwater Archaeologists, employed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Sapelo Island Marine Research Institute.
During the early 1990s, these two men had made extraordinary discoveries along the ocean floor near the valley created by the Altamaha River during the height of the most recent Ice Age. They found camp sites, where ancient peoples had worked flint mined farther inland into tools and weapons. They had not found skeletons, however. The styles of stone implements that they displayed were identical to the Homo Erectus, Neanderthal or Early Homo Sapiens artifacts that I had seen in the great museums of Europe, while I worked in Sweden.
The publicity about their presentation proved to be their demise. The same Lords of Seth who tried to non-person me in 2012 over the issue of Mesoamerican immigration to North America erased these two pioneers and their artifacts quickly disappeared. My understanding is that they were fired by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources because “they had not been given permission to discuss their research by its Director.” Of course, in my case, I couldn’t be fired by anyone and I immediately realized that the tiny membership of the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists knew nothing about the subject. I merely laughed at them, when they repeatedly said stupid things to the public.
Those of you, who have read The Shenandoah Chronicles, know that I was an acquaintance of Smithsonian archaeologist Dennis Stanford. However, I moved back to Georgia prior to Dennis finding Solutrian-style artifacts in the Chesapeake Bay region. He only discussed his speculations about North America’s past with me.
In the early 1990s, Dennis and his allies believed that “logic” did not support the orthodoxy that the first humans in the Americas were the Clovis Culture. Why were most of Clovis Points in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states, while none had been found in Alaska and Siberia?
There was also the issue of animal migrations back and forth between Asia and North America. It was only logical that hunters would have followed the game.
For Dennis, the biggest “smoking gun” was the Red Deer, which is called an Elk in the English-speaking parts of the Americas. Both species of Red Deer (aka elks in North America) belong to the deer family (Cervidae) and share a common ancestor in the Pleistocene Era. In the past, their ranges overlapped across North America, Eurasia and into Western Europe during the Late Pleistocene, with populations surviving into the early Holocene in places like southern Sweden and the Alps. This means that in prehistoric times, the ancestors of both species could be found in the same regions/
Migrations of Red Deer and Reindeer occurred between the Old World and the Americas, even in periods when their was no land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. This means that these herds were able to survive migrations over ice packs or else along the edge of the ocean. So, why couldn’t the human hunters also survived these journeys?
Dennis was convinced that some day, some archaeologist, would find proof on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean that more primitive hominids had once lived along the coasts of North America and Western Europe. The Georgia underwater archaeologists were crushed for finding evidence against orthodoxy. Such is not the case in southern Spain.
The Americas Revealed 