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	Cactus Hill Update
		Evidence for a pre-Clovis level at Cactus Hill was presented in a series of papers given on April 7 at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Philadelphia by the director of the excavations at Cactus Hill, Joseph McAvoy, and a number of specialists studying various aspects of the site.
		Cactus Hill, on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia, has Archaic material which is underlain by a Clovis-era level.
		McAvoy said that, as far as he is concerned, the quotation of whether or not the pre-Clovis level at Cactus Hill is real is "not even close." In discussing the papers, Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution suggested the assemblage adds to evidence that Clovis may have originated in the Southeast.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/cactus.html (634 words)

	Memphis Archaeological and Geological SocietyArchaeologyCouncil of Virginia Archaeologists Honors International ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cactus Hill is the second site in the eastern part of North America where pre-Clovis artifacts have been dated in situ.
		Cactus Hill evidently was a favorite camping ground for countless generations of hunters, according to McAvoy.
		The testing of the Cactus Hill materials was supported by the National Geographic Society and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
	www.memphisgeology.org /a_ip.html (906 words)

	Debate Around the Old Campfire
		McAvoy, a professional archaeologist working on grants from the state of Virginia and the National Geographic Society, began serious excavation in 1993 at Cactus Hill, a site inadvertently discovered in the 1980s when a load of sand dumped into a logging company roadbed turned out to be filled with ancient artifacts.
		Although wind formed the hill, 10 percent of its soil is clay and silt, which bound it together and stabilized it to make "a big layer cake," McAvoy said.
		McAvoy's team tested Cactus Hill's plant remains, and found a logical progression in time from spruce and white pine at the earliest dune levels, to white pine at the pre-Clovis hearth and hard southern pine in the Clovis-era level.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/2000-04/05/011r-040500-idx.html (774 words)

	Cactus Gardens
		Cactus gardens are very low maintenance and easy to grow.
		You can buy cactus soil or make your own with two parts potting soil, two parts sand and one part gravel.
		Cactus gardens are so easy to care for you don’t even have to water them.
	www.gardengreen.com /cactus-gardens.html (164 words)

	Cactus Hill
		Cactus Hill Cemetery was located where Hunt’s Creek met the West Fork of the Trinity River.
		His land included the western half of Wise County and his large ranch house was called Cactus Hill.
		Her body was returned to Cactus Hill to be buried.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~drycreek/cactus_hill.htm (367 words)

	DCP: 24 degrees north, 110 degrees west
		The confluence is in a flat area filled with cactus (mainly cholla and saguaro).
		This was difficult, as I would occasionally brush up against cholla cactus, whose arms would break off and attach themselves to my clothing, arms and legs.
		Unfortunately my camera decided to focus on the cactus that my GPS was sitting on, rather than on the GPS itself.
	www.confluence.org /confluence.php?visitid=2624 (318 words)

	Remains point to 'pre-Clovis' Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While archaeologists have scattered indications of far older American settlements, Cactus Hill and Meadowcroft are the only ones presenting extensive evidence of a pre-Clovis culture.
		And of more importance, Cactus Hill has "a very well-documented Clovis level, and something under it that is not Clovis," McAvoy said, and can be used to suggest that someone — either from Asia or elsewhere — settled the Americas before Clovis.
		McAvoy, a professional archaeologist working on grants from Virginia and the National Geographic Society, said he began serious excavation of Cactus Hill in 1993, bringing discipline to a site that was inadvertently discovered in the 1980s when a load of sand dumped onto a logging company's roadbed turned out to be filled with ancient artifacts.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news190.htm (334 words)

	PaleoIndians of Cactus Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some of the artifacts found at the Cactus Hill sites are controversial owing to their very early dates.
		Critics argue that the nature of the aeolean deposits of sand composing Cactus Hill may have allowed the artifacts to be moved lower by burrowing wasps or rodents.
		Cactus Hill is "one of the best candidate pre-Clovis sites to come down in a long time", says C. Vance Haynes, Jr., of the University of Arizona, a leading scholar of Paleo-Indian cultures.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/northamerica/culture/east_coast/cactushill.html (256 words)

	Early New World Settlers Rise in East: Science News Online, April 15, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Excavations at Cactus Hill, which lies along the Nottoway River 45 miles south of Richmond, began in 1993.
		Soil samples from Cactus Hill indicate that no major geological disturbances affected the two archaeological deposits, according to analyses by James C. Baker of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.
		Microscopic studies of soil structure at Cactus Hill, however, suggest that geological forces may have affected the artifact layers, assert Carole A. Mandryk and J. Taylor Perron of Harvard University.
	www.sciencenews.org /20000415/fob1.asp (706 words)

	Cactus Ridge Loop
		The most fun part of this ride is Cactus Ridge.
		This section lasts for about a quarter mile and snakes down a steep ridge populated by prickly pear cactus.
		Through the other gated entrance to the park, up the little hill and head right on the pavement.
	www.biketrails.com /cactus.html (370 words)

	5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This study describes the character and origin of the sediments at Cactus Hill as a means of evaluating the stratigraphic integrity of the archaeological deposits.
		The Cactus Hill Site (Figure 3.1) is located in southeastern Virginia’s Coastal Plain region, 7 km to the northeast of the town of Stony Creek and 21 km east of the Fall Line, a Cretaceous beachhead that separates the Coastal Plain from the Piedmont physiographic province.
		Cactus Hill is one of several Paleoindian sites identified along the Nottoway River, a tributary of the Chowan River that meanders through Sussex County.
	www.seismo.berkeley.edu /~perron/files/thesis.html (14752 words)

	Jardin de Cactus
		You will have guessed by its name that it is a cactus garden.
		The cactus garden is a great place if you want to make pictures of lots of prickly things.
		It stands on top of a little hill, so you can see it from far away (and the mill can catch the wind).
	www.bamjam.net /Canarias/Cactus.html (153 words)

	Humans Said to Have Been in Americas for 17,000 Years (washingtonpost.com)
		Tuesday, April 4, 2000; 12:59 PM Archaeologists said today they have strong new evidence from campfire remains at a southern Virginia sand dune that humans inhabited the Western Hemisphere as early as 17,000 years ago, adding further fuel to the bitter debate over who the first Americans were and where they came from.
		And more important, Cactus Hill has "a very well documented Clovis level, and something under it that is not Clovis," McAvoy said, and can be used to suggest that someone — either from Asia or elsewhere — settled the Americas before Clovis.
		McAvoy said he began serious excavation of Cactus Hill in 1993, bringing discipline to a site that was inadvertantly discovered in the 1980s when a load of sand dumped into a logging company roadbed turned out to be filled with ancient artifacts.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/pmextra/apr00/04/A9328-2000Apr4.html (363 words)

	Dig may change beliefs on early peoples \| LJWorld.com
		There is no debate even by skeptics of the new pre-Clovis hypothesis that the Cactus Hill artifacts are real artifacts (blades, scrapers, cores and points).
		You might note that in the recent NOVA special on the Solutrean hypothesis on the initial peopling of the Americas, Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian uses Cactus Hill as the "smoking gun" for that hypothesis.
		The rule (even for Cactus Hill) is "one is an accident, two is a coincidence and three is a pattern." Because two independent researcheres found cultural material in good context below Covis at Cactus Hill, Cactus Hill is about a one-and-a-half.
	www2.ljworld.com /news/2005/jun/12/kanorado?ku_news (1429 words)

	ActiveArizona.com - Arizona Hiking Trails - Cactus Cup
		This is an official race route that is used for an annual national competetion every spring.
		However, the Cactus Cup race route is open to bikers like you and me every day.
		Cactus Cup, however, has no speed limits so you can really let it all go.
	www.activearizona.com /Article/29.aspx (143 words)

	Clovis culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such a theory would require that the Solutreans crossed the ice-choked North Atlantic Ocean at the edge of the ice sheet that existed at the time.
		Supporters of this hypothesis suggest that stone tools found at Cactus Hill (an early American site in Virginia), that are knapped in a style between Clovis and Solutrean, support a possible link between the Clovis people and Solutrean people in Europe.
		Opponents of the hypothesis that the Solutreans crossed the Atlantic point to the difficulty of the ocean crossing, as well as the lack of art work (such as that found at Lascaux in France) among the Clovis people, as indicative that no such link exists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clovis_culture (779 words)

	Bellevue RiverFest 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since inception, the Cactus Hill family has surpassed their initial goal of climbing and then staying at the top of the regional scene.
		In 2003, Cactus Hill was voted as the #1 County Group in the Midwest by Lincoln radio station, 96 KZKX.
		Cactus Hill is the first and only regional touring act sponsored by Crown Royal.
	www.bellevueriverfest.com /main_stage.php (2045 words)

	Proven: Man in America by 15,000 B.C.
		The Cactus Hill site is one of several that are overturning the long-reigning theory of how humans first came to the Americas.
		When skeptics scoffed at Joseph McAvoy's claim that the Cactus Hill spear points were possibly 17,000 years old, McAvoy organized a team of at least 10 specialists and spent three years "challenging the conclusions" of his original report.
		Archaeologist David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University questions the fact that the two campsites discovered at Cactus Hill, separated in time by several thousand years, are separated in space by only 7-10 cm.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news199.htm (933 words)

	Munz's Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii (Parry) Ruempler var. munzii Pierce & Fosb.] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the mountains of San Bernardino County Munz's Hedgehog Cactus is found in pebble plains and Pinyon/Juniper Woodland which are apparently more typical habitat for this species.
		Munz's Hedgehog Cactus is also reported in Riverside County in Garner Valley below Kenworthy, in Bear Valley; as well as by Benson in the San Bernardino Mountains.
		Status: The present taxonomic status of this cactus is uncertain; in the 1993 Jepson manual no varieties of this hedgehog cactus are recognized.
	sandiego.sierraclub.org /rareplants/088.html (346 words)

	Whiting Ranch - Lake Forest - Bike Site - Mountain Bike Trails, Bicycle Information for - Bike Shops in - SoCalMtB.com
		Cactus still closed:(Back side of mustard(not sure of trail name) in pretty good condition, only couple of ruts and one washed out area.
		Cactus on the other hand is an awesome site to see.
		Some of the trails are closed due to erosion (cactus, vulture view, cattle pond) but the main fire road loop is open for riding.
	socalmtb.com /socal/trails/whiting.htm (2191 words)

	Cactus Dating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Three "ribs" of the cactus are depicted here, emanating from the center...
		One day, a prickly pear cactus started to grow where the dog liked to sit...
		depiction of San Pedro cactus is on a stone tablet found in Peru dating to 1300 B.C...
	www.adatingagency.co.uk /personals/datingindex4676.html (635 words)

	Cactus Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A cactus (plural, cacti or cactuses) is a type of (usually) succulent plant belonging to the dicotyledonous flowering plant family, Cactaceae.
		The Cactaceae has(depending upon the authority) between 24 and 220 genera, with around 90 genera being the most widely accepted count, and withanywhere from 1,500 to 1,800 species.
		The fictitious Hank Hill is the main character on the animated television program King ofthe Hill.
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/44727-cactus%20hill.html (439 words)

	opuntia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If you ever go on a hike along the place some local people refer to as 'Cactus Hill' in Largent, you may be amazed to see wild cactuses (Family Cacataceae) growing there.
		They are a very lovely, succulent perennial, growing in full sun and low to the ground like a small mat.
		The roots are quite deep, and the well drained soil isn't a problem for this succulent, which stores water in the thick leaves.
	www.cacaponriver.org /articles/opuntia.html (526 words)

	Pocket PC Thoughts :: Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Posted by Jason Dunn @ 11:33 AM Manuel de la Torre is a hard-core Pocket PC user, and he needs a bit of support from his fellow Pocket PC users.
		You see, Manuel is a keyboard player in a band from Lincoln, Nebraska, named Cactus Hill.
		His band is in a contest to open for Phil Vassar, and they need to get a few thousand of you to email the radio station with your votes.
	www.pocketpcthoughts.com /print.php?action=expand,7371:dont_paginate,1 (220 words)

	4A State Meet
		In perhaps the most exciting race of the night Wegge was able to hold of a late surge by 400m winner Matt Adler of Chaparral--who earlier in the night destroyed the 400m field with the fastest time in the state of 48.00.
		Cactus' Johns was able to score a remakable 28 point in field events to help the Cobras to their first state title since 1992.
		Cactus 64.50, Tolleson 56, Prescott 53, Marana Mt. View 43, Greenway 41, Agua Fria 35, Thunderbird 34, Sinagua, Arcadia 32, Sabino, 30, Chaparral 28.
	www.dyestat.com /9out/states/az/azstate4.html (157 words)

	Anthropology on NRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was a farmer, Harold Conover, who stumbled on a clue in the late 1980s that led to a magnificent site in Virginia called Cactus Hill.
		They also found evidence to support one of the most provocative developments of our time: the growing suspicion among physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and even geneticists that some of the first people who settled in the New World were Europeans.
		Thanks to a handful of sites like Cactus Hill, it is now beyond dispute that some people got here much earlier.
	www.nationalreview.com /weekend/anthropology/anthropology-miller060901.shtml (2261 words)

	The Initial Human Occupation of the Southeast: Earliest Americans Theme Study. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While there are thus tantalizing hints of early human occupation in the region, well dated sites with extensive artifact assemblages have yet to be found [with the possible exception of Cactus Hill, where work is ongoing, and where increasing evidence suggests a very early occupation (McAvoy et al.
		While diagnostics remain elusive, there are indications at sites like Cactus Hill in Virginia and Meadowcroft in Pennsylvania that large and small blades, and possibly triangular and lanceolate point forms, may come to be recognized as a diagnostic indicators of extremely early, pre-Clovis occupations (Adovasio et al.
		1978, 1990, 1999; this is particularly important in light of the recent discovery of similarly unfluted "Early Triangular" points and a blade industry in apparent pre-Clovis context at Cactus Hill in Virginia).
	www.cr.nps.gov /seac/outline/02-paleoindian/se_paleo/04-initial.htm (744 words)

	Mammoth Trumpet 11(4) 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cactus Hill is one of many Paleoindian sites the Nottoway River Survey has studied in the quest for knowledge about the area's earliest human inhabitants.
		Cactus Hill is a severely threatened site that since October, 1993, has been excavated as a salvage project.
		The Cactus Hill project was survey members' fourth major threatened-site excavation; they have surveyed more than 100 sites in the area.
	www.peak.org /csfa/mt11-4.html (9527 words)

	Manuel Lopez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The rare High Hill Cactus is a plant that is endangered in
		The High Hill Cactus lives on the north, northwest, and northeast slopes.
		The slopes can be no less than 9.5 degrees of slope.
	uweb.txstate.edu /~ml1035/lab4Report.htm (236 words)

	Vacation Rentals Cactus Hill, Mustique Villa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Endeavour Hills Mustique - Designed by Happy Ward as a quadrangle around a lush central garden river and small waterfall five bedroom suites and a study make up three sides of this spacious home.
		The open living room dining room and terrace lead directly to the beautifully shaped swimming Decorated with comfortable English furnishings throughout Cactus Hill promises a relaxing vacation.
		MustiqueThe exclusive island of Mustique is a secluded 1400 acre paradise surrounded by beaches of pure white sand with gently swaying coconut palms and warm turquoise waters.
	rent101.com /vacation-rental-detail/propertydetail.asp?property_id=6652 (514 words)

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