Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Oh but he was Cerutti, Calico, and my own
> Paleolithic axes show that he was. The new ad hoc
> rules say that three is the magic number, so there
> you have it.

I see 3 examples that don't have a formal site report, the back-bone of modern archaeology. Archaeologists demand site reports... like Waters, Erlandson, and Jenkins, (not to mention Kat and Lee who understand why site reports are needed by the experts to judge the credibility of a site).

[www.hallofmaat.com]
"I know you have made light of Lee's comments concerning site reports, you might not want to do that anymore because it's just showing how little you know of how archaeology operates."

“No specialist report can reasonably consist of its conclusions alone, so the metrical and statistical diagrams and the tables must be made available.” D. A. Roe

Mammoth Trumpet 2011 Vol 26 (1) page 11:
Waters: "But before we can pass final judgment on the site, we need a good site report Jenkins agrees...."

and page 6:
Waters "well-dated strata are only the beginning....."

[www.buzzfeed.com]
and

[westerndigs.org]

"But a slew of independent fossil experts contacted by BuzzFeed News think the report, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is crazy."

If anyone thinks Nature has published a formal site report on Cerutti, think again.

"I have read that paper and I was astonished by it," archaeologist Donald Grayson of the University of Washington told BuzzFeed News. “I was astonished not because it is so good, but because it is so bad.”

"Also troubling, the “hammer” and “anvil” stones described in the paper don’t unequivocally look like tools, said Michael Waters of Texas A&M’s Center for the Study of the First Americans."

"The study also runs afoul of the mounting genetic evidence, Waters added, “which indicates that the first people to reach the Americas and eventually give rise to modern Native Americans arrived no earlier than 25,000 years ago.”

"Dr. Torben Rick, director and curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, also expressed his doubts."

“Broken bones and stones alone do not make a credible archaeological site, in my view, especially without a detailed description of their broader geological context,” Erlandson said."

“This discovery is rewriting our understanding of when humans reached the New World,” said Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, in a statement to the press."
Key word quoted above from BuzzFeed News: "crazy"

To sum this up Kat says: "you might not want to do that anymore because it's just showing how little you know of how archaeology operates."