Lindenmeier Site - Eiseley's Flight 857

Eiseley's Flight 857

As a young man, the writer Loren Eiseley participated in the early excavations at Lindenmeier. In his poem "Flight 857" from his book Notes of an Alchemist, he recorded his reflections on the significance of the Lindenmeier site finds:

"Nosing in through a blizzard over Denver

at thirty thousand feet

I think what the earth covers at Lindenmeier there far away to the north

those men we never found

of ten millennia ago..."