[blam]

Keep in mind that there weren't any American Indians/Native Americans (As we know them today) here any earlier than 6,000 years ago.

I understand the sensation of handling something that old. I have some 7,000 year old wood. In fact, I have so much that I'm gonna burn some of it this weekend. (It's in my way)

[brooklin]

Since Mass is the state of the big dig, couldn't the stone tools have been left at the job site by some of the first union employees there.

[spodefly]

I have some 7,000 year old wood.

Have you talked to a urologist? :)

[BluSky]

"Workers find signs of 7,500-year-old civilization while building water plant"

Great . . . but, is the parrot talking yet???

[genefromjersey]

Just as a tip to all you budding archaeologists out there:
Early settlers had the same BASIC needs as you: food,shelter,water, and were bound to settle-even briefly-in areas that afforded easy access to same.

For example,where salty,brackish water meets freshwater,many kinds of fish will come to spawn-and humans will encamp to take advantage of "easy pickings".

Where game trails are long-established,you're apt to find human encampments where fresh water supplies intersect the trail.

Where there is limestone,you will find caves;and when you find caves,fresh water,and established game trails,you will probably be where others have gone before.

[Ditter]

We have hunted arrowheads in south Texas & Mexico for many years. I always get a feeling of awe when I pick up an arrowhead that someone made & used in that spot, thousands of years ago.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Once when I lived in Arizona I visited Walnut Canyon where the Anastazi Indians lived as cliff dwellers as long ago as over 1,000 years ago, or longer. The adobe walls of the rooms in the cliffs bore the hand prints of the women who did the work. My hand fit right into her hand and it was an odd, and moving feeling to place my hand in a print that old. She had to be standing where I was standing and about my size. A sister, nameless that I will never forget.

[Henchman]

....maybe it was a brewery?

[msdrby]

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