reports of unidentified flying objects unidentified aerial phenomena are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments the american people are becoming most interested and in many instances very alarmed by the UFO stories so why do you suppose that all of this has been kept

from the world? Exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe. Where do they come from?

Why can't you explain it? Everybody in mythology is screaming for disclosure. The future is now.

This is Micahanks. From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground. Welcome, one at all. It is

the Micahanks program, excited as always to be getting into gear and going in pursuit of the anomalous in

our existence like we do every week. Here listen on demand via podcasting apps in pockets throughout

the globe,

and of course courtesy of our friends over at the UnX Radio Network.

Boy, do we have a show in store for you this week because one of the greatest controversies

in all of American archaeology has been reopened like the wound that just won't heal.

Yes, this involves a major upset,

and it's also an area of archaeology that is very near and dear to my heart.

I have spent many years studying the enigma of not only what is known as the Clovis culture,

but also the mounting evidence in recent decades that there are sites older than Clovis

in the Americas. That idea was once heretical, the kind of thing that led to career suicide.

If you went out there and said that you believe that there had been people in the Americas earlier

than about 13,500 years ago.

But there were a few archaeological mavericks who kept going out there and finding data

and presenting it no matter how controversial it was, and with time, a paradigm shift of sorts occurred.

And the newly established paradigm in North American and South American archaeology

became the idea that there were people here earlier than the Clovis culture in the Americas.

And in fact it was a South American site all the way down in southern Chile known as Monteverde,

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