7 years ago the USA put a stop to digging up the remains of people that was discovered in Washington State. It was estimated the age of the remains was about 13,000 years old. The features were not native Indian, they were virtually Egyptian looking.

The Army Corps of Engineers were ordered to bulldoze the sites and destroyed the ability to continue the dig. The reason given was the goverment did not want to upset the indian population.

We stole $12 billion in the last 15 years from the Indians through the Bur. of Indian Affairs by siphoning off the mineral rights money etc... but we are sensititve to the memory of an unrelated 13,000 year old people ??

Again I believe this is an example of a policy decision for political reasons and nothing to do with either science or sensitivity to tribal concerns.

My wild guess is that it is better to not publisize that middle eastern people had a foothold in the new world long time ago.

I did consider pursuing archeology in my youth but settled instead for a hobby of collating anomolous findings.

For example: 6 years ago a professional archeologist lady egyptologist
was ousted from academic circles and funding for having her team reveal that certain Egyptian pharoh mummies contained all the metabolic residues of COCAINE. With the coca plant found only in now South America this suggests an active seafaring trade with the ancient Western world.

The gas spectography results of the mummies was not refuted but the career of the archeologist who found it was.

There is solid evidence of modern humans from 70,000 years ago.
Anomolies point to even older possibilities.

At any rate I find the subject fascinating as well as frustrating that so many people are closed to certain obvious truths such as the true purpose of the Great Pyramid at Cheops.

Of course some folks from Kansas or Tennesee believe that dinosaurs are only several thousand years back and evolution does not exist.