Wandering Wild Lands in the Tennessee Valley

Paleorocks was created from a love and interest in the study of the first Americans and the wonder of their tools and how they used them to survive.   Northwest Alabama is rich in early man history. 

Interest in rocks, fossils, insects and arrowheads began at an early age with a nearby creek and membership in the local boy scout troop.  Hikes to places like Devils Racetrack and Paint Rock Valley instilled a lifelong facination with the outdoors and the land.   I became a biologist and chemist for a living but never could quite get back to the land until retirement.   I took early retirement in 1997 because the job requirements would have included travel to Uzbekistan  which would have taken me away from my beloved Tennessee Valley.

Since it is now reasonably well established that there was a pre-clovis culture in the Americas I hope that in my wanderings I may come across an area that might help shed light on the first Americans.  The Southeast USA has a high concentration of artifacts particularly abundant in the Tennessee Valley and on up into the Carolinas.    I agree with others that we should be searching areas with the highest concentration of artifacts for signs of early man activity.   I believe this is where the breakthoughs will occur.  I use my personal observations of  tools and locations where they are found to formulate my thoughts on how the first Americans lived.