Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Clovis People: The Original North Americans - Historian Dan Flores Explains" video.

  1.  @randomuser1596  I've only hung out with rock and artifact hounds in and West of the Rockies. I don't keep track of it, but I went to some digs up in Gunnison, and got an earful of the political in-fighting over competing theories. Seemed like if there's room for disagreement, everybody should just work together to find out as much as possible, but it sounded like the two schools of thought were in contention for grant money, and it got political. MY main takeaway from rubbing shoulders with the anthro/archaeo crowd was how extensive the trade routes were. Obsidian points showing up 1,000 miles from their source, etc. Flint and obsidian sites were widely known and people traded finished products and raw materials far and wide, as far back as you'd care to go. That came as sort of a shock to me, at first, but not every valley's gonna have a handy source of flint or obsidian. But people were pretty much everywhere and most were using stone tools. They almost certainly traded furs, too, but there's no record of that. The stone tools last forever in the ground.
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  2.  @wagonwheel9426  Horse/Deer flies are assassins.
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  3. Sad thing about human history is that a lot of the most interesting bits were wiped out by floods when the ice sheets retreated.
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