While we were camped at Rendezvous Lake, I took on the job of searching out the remains of previous camp sites used by the Voyageurs. I would awaken early, to get as much daylight as possible, and spend the entire day alone circumnavigating the lake looking for signs like fire blackened rocks in areas of old new-growth around the lake. It also gave me the chance to look for prehistoric artifacts.

"Seek and ye shall find." When Jesus said this 2000 years ago, he was advising his disciples to seek spiritual truth. It also applies to scientific truth. Not finding evidence to support the hypothesis rules out the hypothesis, leaving you free to examine another hypothesis, or forcing you to modify the hypothesis accordingly. You can neither confirm nor deny a hypothesis unless you seek the evidence. In this case, I found a Clovis point.

There are three reasons why I found that Clovis Point: 1) It was there to be found. 2) I knew what to look for. 3) I took the trouble to look for it.  It was an important find because of all the places one could look, this was the one place the Clovis people had to pass through on their way through to the rest of the continent, and on to South America.