[Aztlan] Answer to Martha on Allendale

[michael ruggeri]

Martha,

Yes, that particular team has been excavating that site for 10 years  
but there has not been any confirmation of their claims by peer  
review by other teams from elsewhere. It is not like Monte Verde  
where the entire world archaeological community came to a consensus  
after 15 years of peer reviewed study that Monte Verde is indeed  
going back to 13,000 BC.

Until that happens, the site will be in study and not verified. That  
is what I am saying. There are other sites in the US where claims  
like this have been made and have been studied for some years but  
peer review has not yet established the veracity of the claims.

I hope this happens at some point but we cannot be sure until  
independent verification of claims is established.

This is why the team in Minnesota is inviting outside peer review of  
its findings now.

Mike Ruggeri




 From Martha Noyes,

David, you're correct, these are legitimate and reputable scholars.

Michael, the Allendale archaeology and its find of preClovis  
artifacts is already almost ten years old, as the first of the  
artifacts were found in 1998.

You can take a look at this site,  http://www.allendale- 
expedition.net/ (just the first of several that came up on my search  
engine).