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A little boy’s natural curiosity may have turned up archeological evidence that the earliest Native Americans came from Europe, not Asia.

When UD doctoral student Darrin Lowery was 6, he and his father began collecting arrowheads and spearheads that they found along the shoreline of Tilghman Island in the Chesapeake Bay. “We found some interesting things, but we didn’t know what they were,” Lowery said.

These artifacts remained interesting curiosities until the late 1970s when Lowery and his father were watching “The Search for the First American,” a television program about the first inhabitants of North America. During the broadcast, Dennis Stanford, chairperson of the National Museum of Natural History’s anthropology department, showed a Clovis point, or fluted spearhead made of stone, used as a hunting tool at the end of the last ice age about 11,000 years ago and named after the first of its kind discovered in Clovis, N.M., in 1932. Clovis tools have rock spear points, are thin and bifacial and share “overshot” flaking characteristics that make wide, flat blades.

After watching the program, Lowery said he told his father he had Clovis points in his collection, but the senior Lowery was skeptical. “My father wondered why someone during the ice age was living on what is now Tilghman Island,” Lowery said. At that time, Clovis points were mostly found in the west, and anthropologists believed they were used by hunters who migrated from Siberia to Alaska across the Bering Strait.

Then, when Lowery was 13, he and his sister went to a conference in Washington, D.C., where Stanford was speaking. Lowery brought along his collection, and when he had the opportunity, he approached Stanford. Lowery said Stanford was astonished that these artifacts had been gathered in Maryland and began excavating on Tilghman Island almost immediately.

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