Hippy,
My comments have absolutely nothing to do with the big Clovis, but you did touch on an interesting difference in the world of Archaeologists. Archies who work primarily for museums (even University museums) are generally much more interesting than Archaeologists who are primarily tied to university lectures.
People like Dennis Stanford, Gramly, Hester, Collins, Sandra Olsen, Bruce Bradley, even old timers like Warren Moorehead and Greg Perino fit into a group of people who were based with museums that really pushed new theories versus repeating what was done before. If they hang around long enough (like Stanford, Hester, Collins) academia tends accept them, but most of the others are sort of black sheep in academia... Last year I read through a PhD thesis on the Derbert Clovis tradition in the North East US and South East Canada that didn't mention the Vail site in Maine or three other Derbert sites that Gramly dug. Considering the limited Derbert number of sites, that's kind of like writing an overview of the Chicago Bulls championship teams and never mentioning Michael Jordan or Scotty Pippen.
Joshua
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