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Into the sweltering heat of an earlier july afternoon, Michael R. Waters clambers on to a shadowy pit where a little hive of excavators edge their trowels into an old floodplain.

Into the sweltering heat of an earlier july afternoon, Michael R. Waters clambers on to a shadowy pit where a little hive of excavators edge their trowels into an old floodplain.

A murmur rises through the team, and something associated with the diggers offers Waters, an archaeologist during the Center for the analysis for the First People in america at Texas A&M University, a dirt-smeared fragment of blue-gray stone called chert. Waters turns it over in their hand, then scrutinizes it under a magnifying loupe. Læs videre “Into the sweltering heat of an earlier july afternoon, Michael R. Waters clambers on to a shadowy pit where a little hive of excavators edge their trowels into an old floodplain.”