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Richard Dempsey began his outdoor exploring adventures as a Boy Scout, where he attained the rank of Eagle Scout and especially enjoyed long hikes in the local Southern California Mountains and Deserts. After graduating from UCLA in 1972, he began a career in the Insurance Business, owning his own Independent Property and Casualty Insurance Agency until his Retirement in 2012.

Throughout his career, his real passion was the study of Early Man in America – Paleo Archaeology. For the last 35 years, he has explored many Paleolithic Archaeological sites in the Southern California Mojave Desert. Many of them are Clovis sites dating between 12,200-13,500 calendar years before the present. As a result, he has an extensive Clovis stone artifact collection. He has written several articles relating to the Paleolithic Stone artifacts that he has found on the surface of these Pleistocene Lake Manix shoreline sites.

In October 2020, Richard Dempsey made a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, identifying a previously unobserved and unknown Paleolithic artifact type he has named Paleo Story Stones. These artifacts, crafted from stone, bone, and other materials, depict effigies of two human faces—one young and one old—as well as two mammoths or proboscideans, also represented as young and old. Remarkably, these artifacts are found worldwide and are extremely common.

You can explore Mr. Dempsey’s latest article, “Paleo Story Stones Described,” available at the Rock Art Museum [https://www.rockartmuseum.com/story-stones] or on our website [www.antiquitiesoftheamericas.com] . Additionally, this new discovery has been published as a new Paleolithic artifact type in Dr. Michael Gramly’s recent book, Guide to Palaeolithic Artifacts and Features of the Americas.

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