From the American Side I went to the USSR for the first time in
1982 to attend the 11th meeting of the International Union for
Quaternary research (INQUA) held at the Moscow State University. At
that time relations between our two countries were anything but
congenial and many restrictions were placed on our viewing the
archaeological and paleontological collections and labora tory
facilities. This was not the ideal climate for the free exchange of
ideas needed for meaningful research. However, it was obvious to us
that the strained relations did not extend to scientific
discussions between scholars. We left that meeting well aware that
if the problems of prehistoric Old World-New World relationships
were to be resolved, it would eventually require cooperative
research efforts within the world community of archaeologists. At
that time, the pre-Clovis problem in New World archaeology was
foremost in the minds of many North American researchers: tool
technology and assemblages were being studied as a possible means
of establishing cultural relationships across the Bering Strait,
Clovis sites and mammoth kills were being looked at with new ideas
for interpretation, and New World researchers realized that to
resolve these questions they had to become familiar with the
archaeological record of northeast Asia. A chance meeting of the
writer with Olga Soffer in 1983 led to serious discussions of the
sites on the Russian or East European Plain.
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