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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 657052, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Beyond the pillars of Hercules</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As noted in the citation link back to its homepage, professional archaeologists tend not to credit the evidence of their senses.&nbsp; (I posit that this is because of post-modernism. but that&#039;s another rant.)&nbsp; In fact, when we lived in Albuquerque in 2002, at the coin club meeting, a woman came with a coin she found in her garden a short ways from the Rio Grande.&nbsp; She was hustled to the club president by bowing and scraping people who told her in hushed tones that &quot;he teaches history at the high school.&quot;&nbsp; He told her that some pioneer probably dropped on their way West and it did not come from Roman times.&nbsp; He did accurately identify the coin, I believe.&nbsp; I tried to talk to her but her mind was already closed.&nbsp; When that coin was struck the Rio Grande was wet up to its source.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While finds are what they are, I credit the larger picture as deniable: some ancient, pre-Columbian people -- storm-tossed or boldly going -- made it here.&nbsp; Folsom points match Mousterian points.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I know of another find along the Ohio of an ancient coin.&nbsp; A man brought it in for his mother who found it in her garden, and I was cautioned to be conservative before I spoke to him.&nbsp; So, I was, but I take the evidence as it was presented.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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