ocr: Beside a creek in a cool, damp forest a few dozen hunter-gatherers stayed for a cycle of sea: sons. Then rising waters flooded their settlement. "The same thing happened to us," says archaeologist Tom Dillehay. "We had to move: to higher ground." Beneath a peat bog he and his crew found extraordinarily well-preserved remains including a hunk of mastodon meat. far to the south, people had occupied Monte of hands. The vote was unanimous. Barker Verde at least a thousand years before the oldest smiled and raised his beer bottle: "Td like to Clovis settlement, which dates back 11,500 propose a toa ...