Rolfe Mandel and a team of students from the University of
Kansas are waiting for the results of tests to date the sediment samples
they took from the Coffey Site, located in northeast Kansas along
Tuttle Creek. “It will tell us a lot about the history of the peopling
of the Americas and in particular the peopling of the Great Plains,
especially the Central Great Plains, where it’s been pretty much a black
hole in terms of unraveling that story,” he told
Phys.org.
They are hoping to find evidence of Clovis and Pre-Clovis people. “We
are talking about small family units, hunters and gatherers. It’s a
group of five or six, maybe a little bit larger wandering across the
landscape. They’re following herds of animals. Of course, at the time,
the assemblage of animals looked a lot different than what it does
today,” he added.
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