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05:34okay and actually as I look out over the bog here the preservation conditions had
05:38to be perfect for brain matter to be preserved there's two things that you
05:41need that we do have here one is you have to have a neutral pH if it was more
05:46acidic here in the bog conditions that would promote decomposition the other
05:50thing is there's very little if any oxygen in the water so what we call
05:55anoxic conditions which also does not promote decomposition so the two things
05:59that you need you have here and it makes it just perfect for preserving these
06:04these bodies
06:15what's important about these prehistoric bodies is what they tell us about
06:19America's earliest inhabitants archaeologists say the first migration
06:24took place around 13,000 BC in school we're taught that the first people to
06:32America migrated from Asia across the Bering Strait using a land bridge that's
06:37today submerged underwater this theory is called the Clovis Theory because Clovis
06:45New Mexico is where the first tools attributed to these people were found
06:51some experts believe the Clovis people were the ancestors of today's Native Americans
06:56today there have been at least seven further sites thought to be connected to
07:02the Clovis people so could the bodies discovered here be Clovis settlers who made
07:08it all the way to Florida or did the mysterious people buried here come from
07:17somewhere else
07:18what else can you tell me about these bog people well there's some controversy
07:23around them the accepted theory on them is they were Clovis people back when I
07:30went to school I was taught that people that originated from Asia migrated over the
07:35Bering Strait land bridge into what is now North America these people were
07:39considered what they call Clovis this would be the time period towards the end of the
07:44great ice age this was the time of the great mammals like giant sloths cave bears
07:50saber-toothed tigers woolly mammoths and many people believe that the Clovis
07:55people hunted them so that's possible that they could have come via that route what
08:01do you think I'm not really buying into that you're not know what do you think is the
08:06truth I believe they could be European is that nuts European yes no I don't think that's nuts at
08:13all in fact many scholars today are beginning to question whether or not the Clovis people were the
08:18first people to come to North America if these bog people came from Europe like
08:23Candida believes it doesn't make sense to me that they'd have come from the West a
08:29journey from Europe to Florida across the Bering Strait land bridge would be an
08:33almost 15,000 mile trip which seems crazy but as a geologist I also know that a
08:41sheet of ice may have extended from Europe to North America and that distance
08:45would only be around 5,000 miles making it a much more reasonable route to take if a
08:52prehistoric link to Europe could be proven it'd be a huge deal you know you sent me a
08:58photograph that I wanted to look at so this is the skull from one of the bog people right yes
09:08was there any DNA testing that was done there was DNA testing done and it has been published however
09:16I heard it was European DNA and not Native American like they initially thought it would be
09:21European yes do you realize how important this would be if even one of these bodies came back
09:27with European DNA this would be explosive and would rewrite a huge chapter of American history
09:33this is something we have to get to the bottom
10:06when it comes to the history of North America most of us have been taught the only people who lived
10:11here in prehistoric times came across a land bridge that stretched from Asia to Alaska during the last ice
10:18age while no one challenges that migration story some experts are starting to question whether the
10:25people who traveled to America along that route were really the first in Florida I'm discovering new
10:34evidence that could force a rewrite of our past a staggering amount of skeletal remains bones from 168
10:43people were buried in a bog here and a local woman told me something shocking she thinks there's reason
10:51to believe these skeletons are European because she was denied access to the site where the bones were
10:58found I haven't seen it yet but I'm about to I'm meeting a bioarchaeologist who has special access to the
11:07Windover bog
11:10because she's someone who studies bones found at archaeological sites I'm hoping she can tell me about
11:16this place and the prehistoric people who lived here
11:28so Rachel tell me what is so significant about this site well the site is significant for several factors one
11:35it's very ancient dates to over 7,000 years old so that makes it significant because a lot of those
11:41ancient sites don't last in the archaeological record there were 168 individuals excavated from
11:47the base of this pond so it's a very large cemetery it was probably used for many many hundreds of
11:52years and
11:54the preservation is so good so we have a large population of very well preserved skeletons so really
11:59what we're talking about archaeologically is is a site that's really a gold mine yes it truly is
12:05how was this site first discovered well like most archaeological sites in Florida was discovered
12:11by accident a backhoe operator was scooping out the muck from the base of the pond back in 1982 when
12:18the
12:18housing development was first constructed and happened to spot human remains so I remember reading in
12:24your book how he picked up this bowling ball sized rock rolled it over and saw these two dark eyes
12:31of the
12:31skull staring at him that must have freaked him out yes I did I mean originally he thought he had
12:37stumbled on some sort of murder and it wasn't until they brought in experts and realized that
12:41this was an archaeological site that the excavations began so if we walk right down here I'll show you
12:47the site great so this is the site this is the pond okay so just to clarify you call this
13:01a pond not a bog
13:02well it's a little of both it's a very mucky pond but it is a bog ish environment and I
13:08mean these are
13:08heavy layers of peat that have built up which is basically what a bog is well obviously at the time
13:14of
13:14the dig it didn't look like this no it didn't when they did the excavations of course they had to
13:18drain
13:18the pond to get at the burials down on the base so each season they came out from 1984 to
13:251986 they
13:26drained the pond and then filled it in after each year okay so the geochemical conditions of this bog
13:32or pond as you call it were so unique to allow the preservation of people I mean that in itself
13:39is
13:39amazing but help me understand who were these people and where did they come from well where
13:45they came from is still part of the mystery of finding out who these people were we have to get
13:50DNA
13:51and obtaining DNA from ancient remains is really difficult in the Americas because the preservation is
13:56usually not very good Windover is an exception because these burials came from a pond and the preservation
14:02was such that we can get DNA based on examining the remains of these 168 people what was the primary
14:09causes of death for these people they had a lot of fractures but most of them appear accidental in
14:15nature there wasn't any indication that they were involved in a lot of battles or interpersonal violence
14:21what we could see at Windover is a lot of infection arthritis dental disease we were able to tell a
14:28lot
14:29about life and health in 7,000 years ago in Florida pretty tough life back then oh yes why would
14:35these
14:36people have buried their dead in a pond we have the theme of water permeating a lot of Aboriginal populations
14:43it's part of their origin myths so whether water signified something to them and their belief system
14:50these are very complex burials these individuals were buried with items they used in life tools weaponry
14:58items of adornment they were wrapped in hand woven textiles and they were placed in this pond with
15:04probably with great ceremony this is not a simple way to bury someone I was recently on an airboat ride
15:10into the swamps here looking at the bogs and the organic material similar to what we have here and my
15:17understanding is there are two things the neutral pH that was present here to help with the preservation and
15:23the conditions which are critical for fossil preservation is that correct that is correct
15:29these were the perfect conditions for the preservation of skeletons
15:36so tell me about some of the DNA work that that took place the DNA work of course is key
15:42to finding out
15:42where these people originated right and what the DNA tells us is that this is these the people from
15:49Windover came from Asian stock as we believe all Native Americans came from that's what the DNA
15:55indicates at this point of course we're still making new discoveries each year but where did
16:01this specific information come that this site had European DNA when they first identified the
16:07particular haplogroup for Windover they had also identified that in European stock so initially the
16:13conclusion was oh my gosh there's a connection here but what they have since found is that haplogroup
16:18originated in Asia it's a very ancient haplogroup and it's very unique in North America
16:25Windover is one of very few that has this signature but everything we have found indicates that these
16:32people came from Asia so you're saying there was nothing found here that indicates a European origin
16:37at all is that correct the skeletons the DNA the artifacts are typical of what we find here in North
16:44America
16:45for that time period we're still trying to tease out when people arrived in the Americas how they got
16:51here whether they walked via land bridges or skirted the coast using watercraft and then there are some
16:57that believe they didn't come from Asia at all that there were some migrants coming over from from across the
17:02Atlantic and it's very controversial it is controversial but I know that someone at the Smithsonian is
17:08examining a possible connection between European culture and ancient Native Americans really yes so there's
17:15somebody at the Smithsonian who is investigating the possibility of a European origin for Native
17:20Americans here in the United States well if that's true that is a big deal and I have to go
17:26check it out
17:56I'm investigating America's ancient history I'm questioning if the earliest people to come to America thousands of years ago may
18:05not have been who we thought or have come from where we've been taught the established prehistory of our country
18:12says migrants known as the Clovis
18:14people got here first by crossing a land bridge from Asia around 15,000 years ago but what if that's
18:23all wrong some believe ancient travelers may have crossed an ice sheet arriving in North America even earlier but from
18:32the other direction entirely I've met a woman in Florida who believes that immaculately preserved skeletons found in a peat
18:40bog could be European
18:42European while the bioarcheologist I just met disagrees but even if the skeletons aren't European someone does believe prehistoric European
18:51travelers made it to America and that someone comes from the last place I'd expect the dusty halls of the
19:01Smithsonian
19:05the Smithsonian is known for housing some of the most renowned artifacts from the hope diamond thought to be the
19:12world's largest blue diamond to the star-spangled banner that inspired the U.S. national anthem to the hat worn
19:20by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination the Smithsonian houses some of the world's most valuable treasures
19:29but they are not known for challenging the status quo
19:35there are even legends and conspiracy theories suggesting the Smithsonian withholds evidence to suppress the truth
19:43that's why it's shocking to me that my next clue could be hidden behind these doors
19:50well Dennis I'm curious what do you think about the urban legends about the Smithsonian is hiding artifacts
19:56oh well the artifacts that we curate and take care of here are properties of the people of
20:04I'd say the world okay and if you make an appointment we'll show you anything we have
20:09I'm going to take you up on that all right now what I'm trying to understand better is the first
20:15peopling of
20:16Americas maybe in fact it came from Europe across the ice bridge down into North America well the evidence that
20:23we found
20:24and supports that idea almost 100 percent it looks like ice age Europeans did get to North America probably 20
20:33-23,000 years ago
20:35that's not what I was taught in school me either
20:40Dr. Stanford's theory is revolutionary he believes that the Solutreans a group of ancient people from modern-day France traveled
20:48to America sometime between 14,000 and 25,000 years ago
20:53predating even the Clovis people who were thought to have been here first around 15,000 years ago
21:00Stanford thinks the Solutreans migrated from the East Coast of the United States and shared their distinctive tool making skills
21:08with Clovis people who came from the West
21:12the Clovis people used advanced stone tools eerily similar to tools found in Solutre France
21:21explain to me this this migration of the Solutrean people from Europe to North America how did that happen
21:28well basically let's look at this map here you see that these people are all along what's currently the north
21:36coast of Spain and southwest France but during the ice age the coast was clear out here because of the
21:42lower sea level
21:44so you created more land out into what is now the ocean where these people were living and now it's
21:50under two three hundred feet of water
21:52well for instance right here there's over 400,000 acres that are now underwater that would have been available for
21:59people and animals to utilize
22:02where do people like to live you know when you when you turn on the satellite view of the world
22:08at night
22:08where's most of the light on the coastline and the coast is an easier place to make a living than
22:15any place else what do you really need during a real cold period is fat
22:19right and seals are the primary thing thereafter wait a minute now what you're suggesting is they would have to
22:25have boats boats have been around for 50,000 years when you have a boat
22:29so water bodies such as oceans rivers lakes no longer barriers they're highways
22:36so what you're suggesting is we had a migration or a movement from Europe to North America
22:44well that what the ultimate outcome is
22:47so the Solutrean people were living here and then began to migrate feeding off the seals and making their way
22:54west
22:55they no doubt landed and worked their way south over the years
22:59as a matter of fact here is a specimen which is a Solutrean type biface called the laurel leaf
23:07okay
23:08and this one was found at the intersection of the James and Appomattox River in Virginia
23:14really?
23:15but guess what?
23:16it's made out of flint from France
23:20wait a minute
23:21so you're saying this piece here was found in Virginia what is now Virginia
23:25but the rock itself this chert is French chert?
23:29yes exactly
23:30so somebody brought this rock or this artifact from Europe to Virginia
23:36that's the only thing that could have happened
23:38absolutely
23:39and what time did that happen?
23:40well the artifact itself dates probably around 20,000 years old
23:45these are all local rocks from Virginia
23:48this is getting into some pretty controversial territory you realize that right?
23:52Dennis Stanford's vast collection of artifacts supports the idea of a Solutrean migration to America more than 20,000 years
24:00ago
24:02even though Dr. Rachel Wentz in Windover told me the DNA of the bog people in Florida wasn't European
24:09not everyone agrees and I think it's important to hear what Dennis thinks
24:14so Dennis I was recently in Florida and I looked at these bog people I'm sure you've heard about
24:19could this suggest down in Florida that there were Solutrean and Clovis people from Europe that came down there?
24:27actually I think it might because the DNA that they think these people had comes from Europe
24:35and it probably came from Europe around 23,000 years ago
24:39Dennis' belief that there is a connection between the bog people and ancient Europe
24:45contradicts what I heard from the expert at the site
24:50Dennis speculates that even if the 7,000 year old bog people are not the Solutreans
24:55there's still an important connection
24:58I think they are definitely the descendants of the Solutreans without a doubt
25:02we're getting a lot of these Solutrean kind of artifacts in Florida as well I might add
25:07really?
25:08well what's really interesting is this engraving of a mammoth that's on a fragment of a bone from an extremely
25:16large animal
25:17so with this size animal it would have to be either a mammoth, a mastodon or a ground sloth
25:24and doesn't that tell us something about the age right there?
25:27that tells us that it's at least over 11,000 years old
25:31which is when these animals all went extinct
25:34some people think that this is a mammoth
25:37but personally I don't because of the configuration of the back of the animal
25:42it fits better a mastodon than it does a mammoth
25:48mammoth and mastodons are related
25:51but mastodons were slightly smaller with shorter legs
25:54a lower flatter head and an average height of 6 to 9 feet
25:58in contrast to the 9 to 12 foot tall mammoth
26:02fossils for both creatures have been found in North America
26:05having been hunted by man
26:08well I have to say Dennis you say it's a mastodon
26:11I you know some people say it's a mammoth
26:13why does it matter?
26:14because there are no mastodons in Europe
26:18they're only mammoths
26:20so it couldn't have been copied from European cave art is really what that means
26:24exactly
26:24we've examined this in great detail
26:26and there's absolutely nothing on the specimen itself that says fake
26:32who found this?
26:34a gentleman by the name of James Kennedy found it
26:37Dennis this is amazing stuff
26:38and it really hits me hard personally
26:40because I was taught that the peopling of the Americas came from Asia
26:46across the Bering Strait land bridge into the Americas
26:50but your work suggests that the peopling of America
26:54that was part of the story
26:55but in fact the new chapter is coming from what is Europe
27:00into what is now the Americas
27:01and this bone here seems to be a key piece of evidence
27:05to support this new theory
27:06I mean this changes the paradigm in a huge way
27:13so
27:36there is a lot here
27:39and that's the perfect story
27:39you're going to make sure that you'll collect the plight
27:39I'm returning to Florida on a mission to discover if prehistoric Europeans were actually the
27:46first to make it to America.
27:47The established historical record says that Native Americans crossed a land bridge from
27:52Asia to North America around 13,000 BC.
27:57And while no one's downplaying the incredibly rich Native American culture, what I've learned
28:02is that Ice Age explorers from Europe may have also made it here, perhaps even 20,000
28:08years ago.
28:11One of the pieces of evidence is a carving found by a man in Florida.
28:17It's the oldest piece of art ever found in North America, and it's a critical clue in what
28:22amounts to a prehistoric mystery.
28:27So you're the guy who found the mammoth carving?
28:29Yes, sir.
28:30I'm trying to understand who the first humans were to North America.
28:34Did they come from Asia, like is the prevailing theory, or did they come from Europe?
28:39And then I talked to Dennis Stanford, and he's absolutely convinced that the first people
28:42that came here were Europeans, the salutrians from around France.
28:47The big piece of evidence that really got him excited was your amazing discovery.
28:51So I want to learn more about that.
28:53Well, I've got one of the replicas that the Smithsonian made for me.
28:57Is that it over there?
28:57Yeah.
28:57Hold on.
28:58Let me get it for you.
29:01This isn't exactly the same one.
29:03This is one of the casts.
29:05Tell me a little more about it.
29:06How did you find it?
29:07Well, the story's kind of funny.
29:08This thing sat under my sink for two and a half years at least.
29:12Really?
29:12Yeah.
29:13I went to a dig site that we have that's private, and we collected a bunch of bones that day,
29:18put them in a box.
29:19I was going to take them down to the flea market and give them away to some children there.
29:24I took the bone out, and I rinsed it off.
29:27I was standing over my sink, and the light above my sink caught it just right, and I noticed
29:32the engraving on it.
29:33Well, this is one of the most important artifacts ever found in North America.
29:39Well, what did you think when you first saw it?
29:42Well, honestly, I'm not an archaeologist.
29:44I wasn't, you know, aware of just how important it was.
29:47So how did Dennis Stanford find out about it?
29:49I called the Smithsonian Institution and the head of archaeology there.
29:53So obviously the word began to spread.
29:55What was the reaction of the scholars and other archaeologists?
29:59Total skepticism until they saw it.
30:01Really?
30:02Yes.
30:02Yes.
30:02Every single test that there was known to man, this has been put through.
30:07There have been archaeologists here from Europe, all over the world.
30:11All of them have done one thing.
30:13They all agree that it's real.
30:15Well, to be quite honest with you, I don't find it unbelievable, and I don't find it a stretch
30:18at all.
30:19To me, it seems quite reasonable, and now the evidence is starting to come forward, and this
30:24is a key piece to that whole question.
30:27Who came to America first?
30:29Sounds like the Solutreans.
30:30Yes.
30:30Human beings always tend to surprise us.
30:33Every year, we find out something new.
30:35In 1855, if they would've told you, well, we're going to be on the moon, they would've thrown
30:41you out of the village.
30:42I mean, this artifact all by itself can change the history of North America.
30:47People coming here had to have been from Europe.
30:50Yes, I agree.
30:51In fact, this whole area in Vero Beach has a history of ancient artifacts and relics.
30:56Really?
30:56Yes, it does.
30:57And I have an old friend we could meet at one of those sites, the Vero Man site, to give
31:02you a lot of history on that.
31:04Let's go.
31:04Okay.
31:06The discovery of James' carving is having a big impact on this area of Florida and causing
31:12experts to take another look at other ancient archaeological finds.
31:18The Vero site is one of them.
31:21Located 75 miles south of the Windover bog, where the bog people were found, the Vero site
31:27was first excavated in 1915.
31:30Bones from at least five different people were discovered and dated back to the Ice Age.
31:36At the time they were discovered, people thought there were no humans in America before 6,000
31:42years ago.
31:43So finding human bones here with extinct Ice Age mammals, like the mastodon and mammoth,
31:49changed our understanding of the past.
31:53Now there's renewed interest in excavating this area.
31:56Something that might again change what we think we know about our history.
32:00I want to see this site for myself, and I'm interested in James' historian friend named Gene
32:06Roddenberry, who shares a name with the creator of TV's Star Trek.
32:10Well Gene, it was nice of you to join us here today.
32:13It's a pleasure.
32:14Pleasure.
32:14And I have to ask.
32:15Yes.
32:16Any connection to that Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame?
32:19He and I had the same great, great, great, great, great grandfather.
32:24Okay, so there is.
32:25That's cool.
32:26I was recently at the Windover site, looking at the Bog people, a cemetery that has bodies
32:33there that date back to at least 7,000, maybe 8,000 years ago.
32:37James mentioned the Vero site, that there were human remains also found here.
32:41That is correct.
32:42With big creatures, right?
32:44Very big creatures.
32:45Okay.
32:46What do you know about that?
32:47Well this site, originally, what you have is an excavation for a canal.
32:52It was dug in 1915, I believe.
32:56Okay.
32:56And they started digging a large Pleistocene megafauna bones up.
33:01Megalotherium, giant ground sloth, mastodon, turtle, deer, alligator, horse.
33:08So they were found together with human bones.
33:10Right in here.
33:12What makes James Mastodon carving so important is that until the middle of the 1800s, nobody
33:18knew what a mastodon looked like.
33:20All they had was bones.
33:20Right.
33:21Whoever etched that mastodon had to have seen one.
33:24That's what makes it so important.
33:26You know, most people don't realize that giant mammoths and mastodons and these huge mammals
33:31live together with humans.
33:33I mean, humans actually hunted them, so they definitely were together.
33:37There's no question about that.
33:38Do you think that the human remains found here could be related to ancient Europeans that
33:43came over here?
33:44It's certainly possible.
33:45Okay.
33:46Well, those bones would be really important to study then.
33:49Where are they now?
33:49The early finds here are lost.
33:52Nobody knows where they are.
33:54I mean, they're completely gone.
33:55Completely gone.
33:56Do you think that's by accident or do you think there's something going on?
33:59It's certainly possible.
34:01But in this particular case, what we need is some fresh evidence.
34:04This place is absolutely a treasure trove of fossils and different pieces here.
34:09In this whole argument, were the solution here first or is it Clovis?
34:13There needs to be more evidence collected.
34:15So it can't be denied any longer.
34:39It knows how to find two corpses that have quite single AFP.
34:40It's the same.
34:40It's a long way in the world.
34:40There's no more clues.
34:40There's no doubt there.
34:41It's a sense of visual Trano, right?
34:43There's no more clues.
34:45There's so many clues.
34:47There's no clues.
34:49There's no clue.
34:52I'm in Florida, where the discovery of bodies in a bog, an 11,000-year-old carving of a
34:58mastodon and old bones have the potential to rewrite history.
35:04Evidence like this suggests the Solutrans, a group of people from prehistoric France
35:09traveled from Europe to North America over 20,000 years ago.
35:15But I want to find more.
35:17This whole area of Florida is littered with fossils that could be connected to this mystery.
35:24And if anyone can help me find fossils, it's James Kennedy.
35:29He's an avid fossil hunter, and the one who discovered what's possibly the oldest man-made
35:34carving in the United States.
35:37Hey, James.
35:38Hey, man.
35:39Great day to get out there.
35:40I'm ready to see if we can find some more evidence that ancient cultures from Europe made it here
35:46to Florida, maybe dating back as far as 25,000 years ago, according to Dennis Stanford.
35:51And that bone you found with the mammoth carving on it, there could be another one, couldn't there?
35:56Well, I don't think an artist would only make one painting.
35:59There's a lot of stuff out here.
36:00This place is rich in fossils I've found in my whole life I've been digging this stuff up.
36:05So you think we have a chance?
36:06Yes, sir.
36:07I say we go.
36:07We're not going to find anything sitting here talking about.
36:09I hear.
36:09Let's go.
36:10All right.
36:24James is taking me to a place near where he found his carving.
36:28I want to look for more fossils that could figure into this mystery.
36:34Looks like some rock on that edge of that beach over there.
36:38And there's some on this side, too.
36:40The area he's taking me to is known as the Spoil Islands.
36:44These islands are made of material the Army Corps of Engineers tossed aside when they dug
36:49out canals here in the 1940s.
36:53Geologically, this is an ideal place to find fossils.
36:57Ancient bones that may once have been buried under layers of soil were upturned when these
37:03islands were created.
37:04If I can find fossils of creatures like ancient mastodons or mammoth here, then they could also
37:09contain carvings that might tell us who was here first.
37:13So you like this spot, huh?
37:15Yeah, I like this.
37:16This is good.
37:18So what am I looking for?
37:20Well, mainly the texture on it, you look for the bone marrow a lot of times.
37:25That you find a lot of because most of these pieces are broken.
37:28You'll have a smooth side and a rough side.
37:31The main color we're looking for is the tan and red, like rust red, because of the iron
37:36ore content in the ground here.
37:37The bone absorbs lots of that.
37:39Okay.
37:40Well, there's a lot of rocks here that have that color.
37:43Well, that's why we've got to go through them.
37:46So shape two, I suppose.
37:47Yes.
37:47If it looks like a bone, it probably is a bone, right?
37:50Yes.
37:50Let's find something.
37:51Let's find it, brother.
38:21Hey, is this something?
38:25Yes, it is.
38:26That's crocodile.
38:27See these pits?
38:30That's crocodile jaw is what that is.
38:32Absolutely.
38:33So I got one.
38:34Yeah, that's it.
38:38What's that?
38:39Looks like bone.
38:41Another one?
38:42There it is.
38:43That's two.
38:44That's mammoth or mastodon is what that is.
38:47That's a big one, isn't it?
38:48Yeah, that's part of the other guy we found over there, I'm sure.
38:51Nice.
38:51Wait a minute, what's that?
38:54That's mastodon tooth.
38:55This is mastodon?
38:57Yeah, look at the knuckles.
38:58Wait a minute, is that a tooth?
38:59That's a tooth.
39:00That's a piece of the tooth.
39:01Shut up.
39:02Is that really, that's mastodon, isn't it?
39:04That's a mastodon tooth.
39:04No, I think it is.
39:05Look at that.
39:06Yes, it is.
39:06See how it's worn right there?
39:07Yeah, that's where he was chewing.
39:09And the points right here?
39:10Hey.
39:11This is what I told you, brother.
39:11Give me some, man.
39:12Yeah.
39:15Mastodon.
39:15Yeah.
39:18Here's what we've got so far.
39:19The human bones that were found at the Windover Bog site and at Vero Beach absolutely proves
39:25that there were human beings here at least 8,000 years ago.
39:28And Dr. Stanford's evidence at the Smithsonian was very compelling.
39:32He thinks, and I think he's right, that the Solutreans came over here from Europe perhaps as long
39:38ago as 25,000 years.
39:40And that mammoth bone you found with the carving absolutely supports Dennis Stanford's theory
39:45that it was the Europeans that came over here.
39:47The evidence is mounting to the point where it's impossible to deny.
39:51And I agree with you on that.
39:53And the mammoth carving that I found is very much so the proof all I ever needed and Dr.
39:58Stanford.
39:59But I also have something else I want to show you too, Scott.
40:02You have something else?
40:03I have only showed this to a few of the experts, a few of the scientists, and I've waited for
40:08this time to talk to you and show you.
40:10I have another carving.
40:12You do?
40:13Yes, I do.
40:13And this one not only shows the animals from the Ice Age, it shows human interaction with
40:18those animals.
40:19All right.
40:20We're done collecting.
40:21Let's go look at it.
40:22Let's go.
40:22All right, man.
40:23Amen.
40:30There you go.
40:33Take your eyepiece and look at this.
40:37After the other piece, I started going through all the ones I took from that area, and there
40:42it was.
40:42And this is the original piece?
40:45Yes.
40:45If you look here, you'll see a man holding a spear over his head.
40:50Yeah.
40:51There's another carving here.
40:53It's a fish.
40:54What?
40:55Oh.
40:57And it's got an eye there.
40:59No way.
41:01Where did you find this?
41:02Same place.
41:04As the mastodon carving?
41:06Yes.
41:07Well, if this was found together with the mastodon carving, and Dennis Stanford said,
41:12it was at least 13,000 years, which would not be close.
41:16This has got to be a Solutrean man right here.
41:20This is amazing.
41:21I like this better than the mastodon.
41:24I do, too.
41:25Has Dennis Stanford seen this yet?
41:26No, he knows about it.
41:28Do you realize what you have here?
41:30Not really.
41:31I've kept it more of a secret.
41:32This is amazing.
41:34Scientifically, this changes everything about the history of our country.
41:38Right here, we could have a Solutrean man.
41:40A man that dates back over 13,000 years, maybe even back 25,000 years here in North America.
41:47This could be one of the first North Americans ever to come here.
41:57After leaving Florida, there was little doubt in my mind that the Solutreans from Europe did make it to America.
42:04But the truth is, it doesn't matter who was first.
42:08What does matter is that their stories are told.
42:12From the people whose remains were discovered in the Wendover bog,
42:16to the mastodon carving,
42:18to the Native Americans and Clovis people,
42:20who made an epic journey across the Bering Strait land bridge long ago,
42:25what's important is that they're all part of the same story.
42:29The story of America.
42:31The story of people who've been working alongside each other,
42:35no matter where they're from.
42:37Sharing ideas, technology,
42:40and creating a home for thousands of years.
42:48If you have a mysterious artifact or site I need to see,
42:51I want to know about it.
42:52Go to history.com slash unearthly.
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