This is an IHeart podcast.

Steve Rinella here.

The American West with Dan Flores is a new podcast production on the Meat Eater Podcast Network.

It's hosted by author and historian Dan Flores, who happens to be mine and our own Dr.

Randall's former professor.

By focusing on deep time, wild animals, native peoples in the West's unique environments,

Flores will challenge your understanding of the American West,

and he will help to explain why it is the way it is today.

I count Dan Flores as a friend.

We do not agree on everything, but he has had a massive impact on my understanding of American

history.

And I invite you to get challenged by him in the same way that I have.

Catch the premiere of the American West with Dan Flores on Tuesday, May 6th on the Meat Eater podcast network.

Subscribe to the American West with Dan Flores on Apple, Spotify, IHeart, or wherever you get your

podcast.

Listen to Dan and it will stretch your brain all out.

And I mean that in a very good way.

In 1968 in central Montana, construction workers digging with a backhoe discovered human bones.

It was a child buried 12,900 years ago in the Pleistocene, the Ice Age, which is a time period that has remained a mystery for archaeologists until now.

Because in 2014, 46 years after the discovery, a new technology emerged that told us who this

child was as it became the first and only Clovis-era human DNA to be fully sequenced, giving us insight into the first Americans.

In this episode, Dr. David Meltzer will tell us what we learned from America's oldest bones. I really doubt that you're going to

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