http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=newsleader&sParam=37902857.story
This very interesting article about a Native American Paleoindian site discovered in Virginia is oddly re-titled in The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Va) as :
Virginia site linked to ancient Indians : PLACEMENT OF ROCKS 12,000 YEARS AGO SHOW NATIVE AMERICANS KNEW CHANGE OF SEASONS
Really, Fred?
If you don't happen to know Virginia, it has four distinct seasons. They are: 'cold as hell'; 'pleasant and sneezy'; 'steambath sauna'; and 'pleasant, sneezy and good grief, look at all those leaves we need to rake up'. You bet your sweet bippy they knew the change of seasons. What the rocks mark are the solstices and equinoxes. That implies much more than merely noticing a change in the weather. Surely if they could grasp the concept of a solar calendar 12,000 years ago, we can grasp 'solstices and equinoxes' without a poorly paraphrased revision today.
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