C37 Prologue

He stared down at the object at his feet with the dawning realization that what they had just uncovered could change the face of the world forever.

Never had he been more exhilarated. Or more frightened. He knew, too, that he was going to have to decide how to deal with the discovery in the next few minutes or the news would spread all over camp faster than a forest fire in the High Sierras