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One and two, three, four, fi ve, six, seven and eight. Fade To Black, a Texas A&M student dance organization, performed on Friday in their “NYC: The Concrete Jungle” show. Catch dance and interview video clips of the New York City themed production at thebatt.com.

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UT comes to townThe last A&M-UT football game until at least 2018 is Thursday. Pick up a copy of The Battalion on Wednesday to read what the rivalry means to students at both universities.

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Student Bonfire workers put the finishing touches on stack Sunday evening at the off-campus location near Hearne.

Feed the Spirit to offer Aggie community Thanksgiving feast

Texas A&M Traditions Coun-cil cooked up a tradition for Ag-gie students and families this year: Feed the Spirit, an on-campus Thanksgiving dinner.

Jessica Junek, director of Feed the Spirit, said Thanksgiving is the opportune time for Aggies to gather before A&M’s rivalry with the Longhorns and to remember the Bonfire collapse of 1999.

“It’s a way for us to celebrate being a part of the Aggie family and a part of the Aggie commu-nity that supports each other,” Junek said. “This is an important time for us to come together, to remember the spirit that brought us together in ‘99.”

Former A&M head football coach R.C. Slocum and members

of the 1999 Texas A&M football team will be in attendance, along with country music singer Aaron Watson. The proceeds from the event are going to Bonfire Me-morial to raise money for a visual representation of Bonfire.

“It’s important to continue spreading the tradition of Bonfire because it’s so influential and to remember those 12 Aggies who died,” Junek said. “They were a part of our family and they are Ag-gies still today.”

This will be the first year Tra-ditions Council has put on Feed the Spirit. Taryn Tipton, chair of Traditions Council, said that she hopes Feed the Spirit will become a yearly tradition.

“I foresee it continuing,” Tip-ton said. “We’ll have to see how it develops and changes over the years.”

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Ticket requiredFeed the Spirit is scheduled for Wednesday at 5 p.m. on Simpson Drill Field. Tickets for the event are available for $15 and can be purchased in person or by phone at the MSC Box Offi ce or online at boxoffi ce.tamu.edu. For more information, visit feedthespirit.tamu.edu.

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Recent reexamination of a Manis site — excavated bones of a mastodon — in Washing-ton State has sparked reevalu-ation of when the first humans inhabited the Americas. Using

current technology, researchers were able to put the site’s con-troversial age ambiguity, which has been contested since the late 1970s, to rest.

Michael Waters, anthropol-ogy and geography professor and lead author of the paper that ap-peared in the academic journal Science on Oct. 21, dated the site and its “key artifact” — a bone projectile weapon — to approxi-mately 13,800 years of age.

Past research led scientists to

believe that the first inhabitants of the Americas, known as the Clovis people, existed around 13,000 to 12,800 years ago. Not only does this weapon’s age sug-gest that humans were present in North America nearly 800 years earlier than the Clovis, but it also indicates these early Americans hunted with bone fashioned points. This differs from traditional stone weapons found in Clovis sites throughout the continent.

“The reason I wanted to re-investigate was because it was always one of those sites that looked like it had really great potential for being an early site and giving us useful information about the first Americans,” said Waters, who is director of the University’s Center for the Study of First Americans. “This is the first time we’ve seen bone weap-ons this early on in America.”

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Ancient bone weapon sheds light on human origins

See Bone on page 8

research

Artifact believed to be at least 13,000 years old

Students continue Bonfire legacy with off-campus cut, stack

Burning desire

Bonfire no longer burns on cam-pus, but Student Bonfire has main-tained the tradition for the student body since 2002.

“There’s so much passion, power, momentum and personal courage by putting themselves out there,” said Dion McInnis, Class of 2003 and

member of the Student Bonfire board of directors. “You can’t hit the brake on that.”

Since Bonfire’s 1999 collapse, Tex-as A&M has neither recognized the tradition nor sanctioned the event on

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Drought halts burnTuesday’s scheduled Student Bonfi re burn was postponed due to a local burn ban in the wake of severe Texas droughts. The organization plans to burn the stack when the ban is lifted.

See Bonfire on page 7

B onfire was among Texas A&M’s oldest and most

recognizable traditions. It was a symbol of the

Aggie Spirit and every Aggie’s burning desire to

“Beat the hell outta t.u.”

Walton crew members rest during the final day of stack on Sunday.

A&M students take part in an archeological dig during the summer.

Capitalism broken, instructor says

In a time of economic woes and Wall Street protests, many solutions have been proposed to fix the bleak conditions, both in the U.S. and around the globe. One speaker visited A&M with the theory of distributism, a response to capitalism and socialism.

John Médaille, author of “The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Market-place” and assistant instructor of theology at the University of Dallas, presented the theory Friday in Rudder Tower.

“[The] key principle of distributism is that ownership should be as widespread as possible, rather than being concentrated in the hands of a few owners or in the hands of state bureaucrats,” Médaille said.

Médaille advocated distributive justice,

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the instrument of distributism. He said without this principle, consequences inevi-tably lead to the U.S.’ current situation.

“In the absence of distributive justice, it is not productivity, but power that gets

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John Médaille presents the theory of distributism and current economic times on Friday at Rudder.

See Distributism on page 4

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clarifi cationRegarding a Nov. 16 article that appeared on page 1 (“Yell leader aids arrest”), freshman civil engineering major David Kerr also responded when he saw offi cers chasing a fl eeing suspect near the band fi eld and pursued the suspect until he surrendered in a nearby parking lot.

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WASHINGTON — Con-gress’ supercommittee conced-ed ignominious defeat Monday in its quest to conquer a gov-ernment debt that stands at a staggering $15 trillion, unable to overcome deep and endur-ing political divisions over tax-es and spending.

Stock prices plummeted at home and across debt-scarred Europe as the panel ended its brief, secretive existence with-out an agreement. Republicans and Democrats alike pointed fingers of blame, maneuver-ing for political advantage in advance of 2012 elections less than a year away.

The impasse underscored grave doubts about Washing-ton’s political will to make tough decisions and left a cloud of uncertainty over the U.S. economy at the same time that Greece, Italy, Spain and other European countries are reeling from a spreading debt crisis and recession worries.

President Barack Obama –criticized by Republicans for keeping the committee at arm’s length – said refusal by the GOP to raise taxes on the wealthy as part of a deal that

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also cut social programs was the main stumbling block.

“They simply will not budge from that negotiating position,” he said.

Based on accounts provid-ed by officials familiar with the talks, it appeared that weeks of private negotiations did noth-ing to alter a fundamental di-vide between the two politi-cal parties. Before and during the talks, Democrats said they would agree to significant savings from benefit programs

like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security only if Repub-licans would agree to a hefty dose of higher taxes, including cancellation of Bush-era cuts at upper-income brackets. In contrast, The GOP side said spending, not revenue, was the cause of the government’s chronic budget deficits, and insisted that the tax cuts ap-proved in the previous decade all be made permanent.

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Top video game shooters of 2011 go head to head

F all season has always been known as the time of year

when the biggest blockbuster titles hit the market.

Electronic Arts took advantage of the time to release

a game that definitely gives Modern Warfare 3 a run for its

money.

T he highly anticipated release of Modern Warfare 3

brought crowds to the midnight release and legions to

the leaderboards soon after.The fact of the matter is,

the franchise is among the ruling caste of video games. It’s

here to stay and I think we’re ok with that.

John Tee: Battlefield 3’s scale impresses

Matt Bizzell: Call of Duty, polished and reloaded

Story: Unlike Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the developers decided to give Battlefield 3 a legitimate single-player campaign. That being said, the storyline could have used a lot more originality.

The game casts you as Marine Staff Sergeant Henry Blackburn. Without spoiling too much, Battle-

field 3’s plot revolves around a terrorist plot to

Story: Modern Warfare 3 picks up almost exactly where it left off. The first level has the player fighting back the tide of Russian shock troops in New York. In short, the campaign is still very much action packed.

Despite the intensity, the campaign ran kind of on the short side, maybe eight or nine hours. Usually, this wouldn’t be an issue but the game tends to switch up the player characters, making time spent as each individual average only about an hour. The pace of the story is practically frantic, pitting players against the world at every twist and turn. I can promise you explosions, gunfire and more explosions.

Gameplay: There’s not too much to say about the gameplay for the campaign, point and shoot at the baddies and watch them fall over dead. The only innovation occurs in the realm of multiplayer, where players are now allowed to level up their weapons in addition to the usual scheme. This brings a whole new level to the multiplayer game-play, encouraging players to carve out their own domain with their favorite weapon outfitted with unlockable attachments and camouflages.

Small additions aside, multiplayer is still the same game that it has always been and plays much like an additional map pack. The new maps in question seem a bit smaller in scale and cause the action in game types like Team Deathmatch to speed up.

The Special Ops gameplay options returns, featur-ing dozens of “mini-missions” that can be played solo or with a friend. This Modern Warfare also intro-duces a survival mode, in which players fight increas-ingly more difficult waves of enemies.

Graphics: They’re the same. Really. I wouldn’t be surprised if the developers slapped a new coat of paint on Black Ops and called it a day.

Verdict: While not much has changed, Modern Warfare 3 has been able to once again, proven itself worthy of the A-list games it competes against. So while it’s true that the franchise may be tending to-wards the formulaic, the experience it provides is still very much one hell of a time.

set off nuclear devices in New York and Paris through a series of flashbacks via interrogation. The story climaxes in the present day. Anyone who played Call of Duty: Black Ops will recognize this plot device. During those flashbacks, characters die and you get from Point A to Point B by shooting lots of bad guys.

Gameplay: The single-player seems generic because Battlefield 3 is all about the multi-player. Compared to any Call of Duty games,

the first thing players will notice is scale of the battlefields. These are not the squad-based shootouts players have

grown familiar with, this is war on a full scale. Some maps are so big that it is advisable for play-

ers to make use of vehicles. The jet gameplay makes for an interesting change of pace as you have to work for those extra kills rather than having a computer-controlled jet do it for you. The focus of gameplay is also about teamwork rather than individual performance. For example, you can literally score points by helping teammates by doing things like providing suppressing fire. This large scale and teamwork sets Battlefield 3 apart from the Call of Duty games.

Graphics: It would not be much of a stretch to say that Battlefield 3 has some of the most photorealistic graphics of any game on the market. The lighting effects are absolutely gorgeous and the best part is that the framer-ate runs smoothly, even during those massive multiplayer battles.

Verdict: Battlefield 3 is a worthy contender to Call of Duty this season. Despite the glitches and server crashes, it has a lot of potential and it is definitely worth picking up for those who tire of Call of Duty’s formulaic gameplay year after year.

Record breakerWithin 24 hours, Modern Warfare 3 generated over $400 million in sales, making it the largest entertainment launch of all time.

Staking its claimBattlefi eld 3 shipped 10 million copies during its fi rst week of release, making it developer Electronic Art’s fastest selling game.

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rewarded,” Médaille said. “When the worker gets less than what his productivity demands, capital con-centrates at the top. The result is an increasing con-centration of capital and less stable markets.”

Distributism attempts to restore distributive jus-tice in economic science, Médaille said, and ex-amples of successful business both abroad and in the U.S. prove its feasibility. Médaille added that a company called Springfield Manufacturing Corpo-ration, an employee-owned company, is evidence that distributism can work.

“Its president set out to create a corporate culture of employee ownership and involvement,” Médaille said. “The president was seeking not just growing his company, but growing his employees as well.”

Médaille said that since distributism was originally created as a response to capitalism, it is better suited for a democratic economy.

“Distributive justice is not an unobtainable idea, rather a principle embodied in existing and success-ful business practices, practices which we need to examine and to incorporate in our economic mod-els, particularly in this time of our uncertainty,” Médaille said. “The historical and empirical truth is this: distributism goes from success to success, while

capitalism goes from bailout to bailout.”Paul Adamski, junior philosophy major and one

of the organizers of Occupy Bryan-College Station, said that while the theory offers some good ideas, it may be too radical for the Occupy movement to embrace.

“I am particular to distributism, but insofar as it is a radical change from the status quo as an anti-cap-italist alternative, I unfortunately don’t see it being a fit with the more moderate Occupy movement in the immediate future,” Adamski said.

However, Adamski said that distributism could be a successful alternative to current economic practices.

“Distributism possesses some attractive features to people who are either conservative — it was origi-nally a Catholic ideology — or progressive; it is in some ways similar to conceptual socialism,” Adam-ski said. “It also gives us an alternative to capital-ism which seems bound up in corrupt interactions between government and corporations, as well as the systemic problem of joblessness and unfair wealth inequality.”

Médaille said that some sort of change must occur in order to avoid economic collapse.

“If you wish for equilibrium, you must work for equity,” Médaille said. “Equilibrium is economic peace, and equity is economic justice, and you will never see the one without the other.”

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The Seven Solutions, by any other name, still stink.

For those unfamiliar with the solutions, they were a set of well-intended but ma-ligned reforms to improve higher education.

One solution featured teacher rewards similar to the recently-canceled Student Led Awards for Teaching Excellence program, which gave bonuses on a metric that over-valued student evaluations. Student evalua-tions are inherently vague, as it is impossible to know whether a good evaluation means the professor and class were good, fun, easy or any number of possibilities.

Another solution featured a system to rate teacher efficiency, which favored larger classes in a way that a calculus professor with 40 students would invariably be considered inferior to a history professor with 200.

These ideas seemed to have been dis-missed during the summer when they met with overwhelming opposition. Richard Box, chairman of the Board of Regents of the Texas A&M University System, even called them a “distraction from an impor-tant conversation.”

Schwertner’s gaff implies the solutions are still very real and very much a part of the plan.

One might think Schwertner just mis-spoke; unfortunately, he already has a dubi-ous history regarding the Seven Solutions.

In an Aug. 25, 2010, email obtained by The Battalion, Schwertner told J.D. Sandefer, political mover and shaker and father of the Seven Solution’s creator Jeff Sandefer, “Just tell Jeff to saddle up. We are doing a lot more than the staff knows about.”

Schwertner goes beyond being low-key or even secretive and into the realm of inten-tional deceit.

In an email dating to Dec. 29 from Jeff Sandefer to Schwertner and his father, Sandefer said:

“We’re going to have two of the bright-est minds in higher education in Austin January 13th for a private lunch. Several UT regents or soon to be Regents are going to be attending, and I’d like to have any interested A&M regents there as well.”

It’s not uncommon for a regent to be lobbied, but it is interesting that Sandefer has no qualms telling Schwertner he is meeting with soon-to-be UT regents. Regents whose names would not be released to the public for another month. But, that’s still not the best part.

Jeff Sandefer also informs Schwertner that, “My understanding is that since this is an educational meeting only, that the open meetings’ rules won’t apply.”

One can easily imagine this meeting tak-

ing place in a dimly-lit back room where cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking big wigs secretly decide the future of A&M.

Even more disconcerting is this appears to be business as usual among regents. J.D. Sandefer promised to invite Regent Phil Adams to the back room meeting. An email sent on Jan. 3 confirms he did. In it, Kelli

Gallagher from Phil Adams Co., invited Chairman Box to the meeting.

It’s unclear if any attended this meeting, but it certainly appears Schwertner and the Board of Regents have no love for transparency. Aggies, both students and faculty, deserve

to know what is going on at A&M and the opportunity to

have a say. We have no place for those who would hide the truth, saying

one thing while doing another. After all, an Aggie does not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do.

Taylor Wolken is a senior economics major and opinion editor of The Battalion.

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month when he gaffed responding to a question regard-

ing the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Seven Solutions

for higher education. “We’re not calling it that anymore, it’s too

polarizing,” he said.

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“Just tell Jeff to saddle up. We

are doing more than the staff knows about.”

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campus. In 2002, a group of students brought the tradition back, making and burning a trash pile off campus, which did not require University approval. The effort formally assumed the name Stu-dent Bonfire in 2003.

“It’s amazing how the trash pile in ’02 mirrors the beginning of Bonfire,” McInnis said, referring to Bonfire’s 1909 roots, when a group of students burned a trash pile following an A&Mfootball victory.

Since the beginning, Bonfire endured many changes and challenges, from pro-gressive modifications in structure to its collapse in 1999. Student Bonfire now faces A&M’s move to the Southeastern Conference and break from arch-rival Texas, which announced that the Aggie-Longhorn game on Thursday will be the last until at least 2018, postponing the 117-year-old rivalry with no guarantee of a future.

As A&M makes its way to the South-eastern Conference, some have ques-tioned the future of traditions including bonfire and “The Aggie War Hymn,” which are tied to the burnt orange. But the Student Bonfire members aren’t uni-formly bitter about the switch.

“I think the move to the SEC is a bet-ter move for Texas A&M as a whole,” said senior forestry science major Travis Springer and one of four red pots in Stu-dent Bonfire responsible for organizing the effort. “Although I am sad to see de-cades of local rivalries go away, I see the upside of doing it.”

Many of the students active in Student Bonfire were confident their tradition will endure the test of this new chapter in Aggie history.

“I believe [bonfire] can last because it is something for students to get involved in,” said construction science major Casey Purvis, head senior red pot. “It’s not just about t.u — it’s about bring-ing the crew together, building camara-derie and the Aggie Spirit and keeping

it going.” Purvis expects bonfire to burn every

year, whether or not the Aggies play the Longhorns. Although the Thanksgiv-ing deadline will become arbitrary in 2012, bonfire leaders said it is unlikely that stack will burn any sooner in com-ing years, due to the time required forthe project.

Burn was scheduled for Tuesday eve-ning, but because of the severe Texas drought and a resulting burn ban, stack will stand unlit for an undetermined length of time. A burn ban postponed the 2010 burn to January 2011.

“In a weird way it’s … easier because we will just go out and do it,” McInnis said. “Students will continue to build it and will overcome any doubts.”

One of the prominent challenges Stu-dent Bonfire expects to face is deciding whether to replace the orange outhouse — a “t.u. frathouse” — at the top of the stack, and whether to change the “Beat the hell outta t.u.” yell.

“There aren’t many changes happen-ing,” said Tyler Schardt, sophomore aerospace engineering major and Wal-ton crew member. “It won’t even be for a different team. It will still be ‘Beat the hell outta t.u.’ You can’t kill a 120-year-old tradition.”

Many students and bonfire partici-pants said the rivalry with Texas does not define bonfire. The underlying tra-dition behind Bonfire — absent rivalry connections — was the undying flame of love that every loyal student carries in their heart for the school. Student Bon-fire continues in this spirit.

“I wake up thinking about it,” Purvis said. “Bonfire is something that can’t be explained to anybody. It’s just the feeling you get from doing it.”

According to legend, when Aggies started Bonfire in 1909 local residents complained of cadets sweeping the town, taking swings and dismantling lawn fur-niture to burn. One account even has cadets tearing apart a local barn for fuel.

Bonfire grew over the years with the student body, matching the University’s military roots, and eventually became an

on-campus tradition with strong ties to community and dorms.

“[Bonfire is] a good opportunity for students to get out and a chance to get involved with their dorm and tradi-tions,” Springer said. “It’s a good bond-ing experience, a unique experience that after ’99, Student Bonfire was kept alive to make sure students have that experi-ence.”

Dorms begin the cut process at the beginning of the year and continue to stack and wire the logs to the structure that stands today.

A professional engineer approved the Student Bonfire structure in 2003 and recommended a wedding cake design smaller in size and safer than the stack that collapsed. For added support, four poles are spaced evenly around the stack and welded to the center pole with a steel pipe. These poles are known as Windle-sticks, after Levi Windle, a ma-jor supporter of Student Bonfire who died in 2003. The Windle-sticks wave four flags: The Texas state flag, the “Come and Take It” flag, the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flag and the Texas A&M flag.

Additional supports, referred to as perimeter pools, stand around the stack and are named for crews that demon-strate dedication and a strong work ethic. The center pole, which is earned by the hardest-working dorm, was given to the Lechner Hall crew this year.

“The camaraderie builds friendships,” Purvis said. “It’s about hard work and dedication and keeping the spirit alive.”

Within the bonfire tradition are many smaller traditions. The band constructs the outhouse that stands atop the stack. One weekend was traditionally father-son, dating to the days of the all-male Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, in which families are given the opportunity to go to cut.

“Bonfire is all about telling stories,” McInnis said. “It’s about the Aggie Spirit and family and showing what an Aggie is capable of.”

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Student Bonfire workers add a “t.u. frathouse” to the peak of the bonfire’s center pole on Monday with the assistance of a crane.

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While some skeptics believe that the Clovis are still the earliest Americans, David Carlson, associate professor of an-thropology, said this site should convince them otherwise. Carlson said he hopes this find will encourage other archaeolo-gists to search for more sites that are at least 14,000 years old.

“Many believed that the Manis find represented clear evidence of human oc-cupation before the Clovis hunters appear in the archaeological record,” Carlson said. “Now most of the skeptics should be convinced as well.”

When Carl Gustafson, one of the pa-per’s authors, first excavated the site be-tween 1977 and 1979, the bone projec-tile was found embedded in the rib of a male mastodon. However, with limited technology, the best way to determine the shape of the projectile was to take a standard X-ray of the object, which Waters said couldn’t clearly discern the object’s structure.

Using more advanced technology, Waters applied a special kind of X-ray

machine, known as a computed tomog-raphy scanner, with 3-D software to the punctured rib. Taking hundreds of tiny pictures of the rib and the embedded pro-jectile, the scanner showed that the pro-jectile was sharpened to a point, confirm-ing the weapon’s lethal purpose.

“It very clearly was a bone projectile point that had been sharpened to a tip. And the tip end had been broken on im-pact and kind of rotated off to the side,” Waters said.

Upon further examination of the area around the projectile, Waters and col-leagues found no “evidence of bone growth around the point.” This discovery suggests that the mastodon died shortly after the attack.

Unlike jagged stone weapons, such as arrowheads, which can be fragile, bone weapons are light-weight, durable and penetrate targets more easily, Waters said.

“If you drop a stone projectile point you might break it, but if you drop a bone projectile point, it’s not going to break,” Waters said. “Traditionally, bone projec-tile points are a little bit bigger than the diameter of a pencil … when you throw or thrust [the weapon], it penetrates pretty easily.”

In addition to studying ancient sites in areas like Washington State and Wis-consin, Waters has worked on the oldest archaeological site in central Texas and North America since 2006. He leads a team of researchers each summer, includ-ing undergraduate and graduate students at Texas A&M, to the site for furtherexcavation.

Considered the oldest archaeological site in Texas as well as North America, the Debra L. Friedkin site has more than 15,000 artifacts. Some of the articfacts are thought to date around 15,500 years old, again suggesting that humans occupied the Americas before the Clovis.

Graduate student of anthropology Tom Jennings has worked on the Debra L. Friedkin site with Waters. He has stud-ied some of the site’s artifacts and intends to write his dissertation on what he finds.

“The Debra L. Friedkin site was a re-ally exciting find,” Jennings said. “Ever since I started here at Texas A&M I’ve been going out every summer and dig-ging. And then I analyze the artifacts in the lab and try to figure out what tools they were making and what those early people were doing.”

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A&M anthropology and geography professor Michael Waters leads a team of students on an archeological dig in central Texas. Waters research led to the discovery of a bone weapon used to kill a mastadon more than 13,800 years ago.

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