PIECING HISTORY TOGETHER COLORADO ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE KNEE-DEEP IN THE HUNT FOR CLUES TO THE CONTINENT'S FIRST INHABITANTS.(News) From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: June 18, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Jim Erickson, Rocky Mountain News

KANORADO, Kan. -- Finding the elusive Stone Age spear point.

That's the dream that keeps Denver archaeologist Steven Holen digging in the brown sand of a grass-topped hillside along the Colorado border.

"That's the kind of thing you keep hoping for, even though you know it's a long shot," said Holen, curator of archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

"It would be a very big deal," he said. "It would change the way we think about the early peopling of North America."

Holen and a team of about 30 ...

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