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NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 3

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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] phases, the first of which was called the Farmdale and the second the Iowan. Depending on how the glaciology finally works out, Lewisville Man and Tule Springs Man were either mid-Wisconsin or pre-Wisconsin inhabitants of the New World, in a Paleolithic stage of culture. The Tule Springs report, written by M. R. Harrington and Ruth D. Simpson, both of The Southwest Museum, was reviewed for American Antiquity by Jesse D. Jennings. A recent president of The Society for American Antiquity, Jennings was also Viking Medallist for Archaeology in 1958. Jennings writes: (parentheses are your editor's) "There is now no reasonable doubt that the association (of man-made hearths, bones of extinct animals and artifacts) is valid. The interpretation of ancient man's history in America, along with his technology, must now take account of a more-than-doubled time depth. (The oldest date on Clovis is about 12,000, from the Lehner Ranch site, Arizona; the oldest date on Folsom is about 11, 000, from the Lindenmeier Horse Ranch, Colorado.) The fixing of this early point in time for man to have been preying on large American mammals will surprise no students of early man in America, but they will be more comfortable in having this additional bit of evidence’. (Certainly it will surprise no readers of your editor's "No Stone Unturned.) In his foreword to the Tule Springs report Alex D.