if he is down here in southwestern pennsylvania by 14, 000, he must have come across the bering strait land bridge, perhaps as early as 25,000 or 30,000 years ago. >> and so during the course of the excavations here, signs of a human presence took many forms. there were obviously artifacts of indisputable human manufacturer made of various kinds of raw materials, usually high-grade shirts or flints as they are popularly called. or jasper from a wide array of quarries. some of this raw material came from flint ridge in ohio, some of it came from the owner dog outcrops in new york, some of it came from the pennsylvania jasper quarries in eastern pennsylvania. in any case, we don't think that the populations that were using stone from these far-flung areas were in fact visiting all those places and that their territory would have been thousands of square miles. instead, we think they are exchanging it along with other things back and forth with other groups that live in a widely distributed situation like that. of course, because the site is relatively wet, the most durable items that are recovered f