Tim T.,

Let me provide you with an example of suppression of facts. Oh, and for the 
HISTARCH on-topic crowd, when surveying China Lake (California) back in 
1970-1979, we found piles of borax and salts collected by historic people for 
commercial harvesting. But, we also found fragments of mammoth bones, camel bones, 
and other mammals that concentrated near hard indurated mounds. G.I. Smith, 
U.S.G.S. geologist, interpretted the east shoreline suffered a catastrophic 
seismic event that dropped at the northeast about 2 meters. The eastern shoreline 
ripped about a mile south as lake waters plunged east into another basin. The 
hypothesis at the time had that the rushing waters stripped away softer lake 
shore soils, but the velocity slowed further south as the water got more shallow. 
On a mega-scale, we found enormous sand ripples like you feel under your feet 
in a strream bed. The high densities of bone coincided with flaked basalt, 
chalcedony, chert and obsidian. Smith and Emma Lou Davis selected one low mound 
surrounded by high densities of bone and flaked stone as a place to hand-cut a 
trench. As one of the laborers cutting that trench, I know from observation 
that the bone bed underlay a cemented lacustrine gravel lens. Among the bone 
were flakes of stone. All the funding agencies were beside themselves until the 
Uranium Thorium date came back at about 20,000 years ago. No carbon survived 
in the bone. No one would publish the data and all attempts to discuss it at 
professional conferences were met with scorn, ridicule and laughter. Emma Lou 
Davis self published some of that material, but no academic journal would touch 
it. She passed away in 1988 and her notes are archived in the Matarango Museum 
(for inquiring minds).

I keep my copy of Laura Croft #1 slabbed in plastic.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.