Meadowcroft: Sixty Years Ago: The Discovery of a Lifetime

Abstract

Most of us would have walked past without notice, but Albert Miller's keen eyes led him to the discovery of a lifetime. The forest floor was covered with a damp mosaic of fallen leaves, and the autumn air carried a faint babbling from Cross Creek, flowing 40 feet below the rugged cliff face. It was November 12, 1955, and, without realizing it, Albert was about to set off a chain of events that would change the scientific understanding of when the first people arrived on the North American continent.
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