Humans In Oregon 10,000 Years Ago

AP/Newsday ^ | 11-25-2002 | Joseph B. Frazier

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Humans in Oregon 10,000 Years Ago?

By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER
Associated Press Writer

November 25, 2002, 9:31 AM EST

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Researchers have found traces of a human presence on the Oregon coast dating to more than 10,000 years ago, raising the area's importance for those who study the peopling of the Americas.

The findings at the Indian Sands site in Boardman State Park are more than 2,000 years older than previous discoveries along the Oregon coast. The site, about 12 miles north of Brookings, was excavated in August by a team of researchers from Oregon State University.

The discovery, which dates to the end of the last Ice Age, also lends weight to the theory that early inhabitants of the area might have arrived by sea, rather than by land.

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Click on the source for the whole article

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Thanks. I wonder why they didn't put the 12k date in the headline?

[FreePaul]

Yes but do we know when they were replaced by the migrants from California.

[muawiyah]

Well, maybe we don't know when they were supplanted by Californians, but we do know when the cannibal kings moved in and established their nasty attitudes as the law of the land.

[johnny7]

What were they driving?

[onedoug]

A little later on the scene

[RightWhale]

Roberta Hall may have asked that the smaller number be used in the article since the 12,000 involved recalibrating the data. It may have to do with standards and equipment.

[MonroeDNA]

They were early democrats.

[crystalk]

Kennewick Man was no doubt related to these, and as Paul Revere said, BY SEA, BY SEA!

Have you ever met anyone whose ancestors came by land? It was either sea or air.

[Grampa Dave]

This will link to the Kennewick man data. (link)

[Grampa Dave]

A short distance up the road, in the Gold Beach area, findings like these were documented years ago: (Early Man, 9000 years ago in Gold Beach)

These historians claimed that these early Oregon settlers came down via the connected land mass from the Siberia area to Alaska and then down the West Coast.

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"This will link to the Kennewick man data. (link)"

Thanks, let's not leave out his cousin:

Spirit Cave Man

[Grampa Dave]

This is the Yahoo link to Kennewick Man links: (Yahoo Link to Kennewick Man Articles)

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the Lycos search link for Kennewick Man:(Lycos search for Kennewick Man)

I'm out of here for awhile. When I get back you guys and others will have nailed down Kennewick Man and the PC foibles that surround him and his cousins in Western America.

[farmfriend]

!gniP

[blam]

"So this was before the Great Flood, right? "

There was a great flood in that area.

[Carry_Okie]

Roberta Hall, an OSU anthropology professor, led the excavation team along with Loren Davis, a geoarchaeologist and anthropology instructor at OSU. Hall said the information will help tribal people, including the Confederated Tribes of Siletz and the Coquille Indian Tribe, learn about their ancestors and the challenges they faced. The tribes are collaborators in the research.

Um, what if they aren't?

It would seem that by "collaborating" on the research the tribes might successfully prevent the embarassment of a Kennewick II and the threat that represents to effecting successful legal claims as "indigenous peoples."

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"It would seem that by "collaborating" on the research the tribes might successfully prevent the embarassment of a Kennewick II and the threat that represents to effecting successful legal claims as "indigenous peoples."

I real glad to see that you picked up on this bit of information. Chatters in his book (see post #10), says that there are not any skeletons of American Indians/Native Americans (as we know them today) ever found in North America that are older than 6,000 years old. Previous that that, they were the Kennewick Man variety. They should boot these Indians out of this site, it's to old to be 'them.'

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It looks like Mr. 'ericwendham' (post #15) made it on FR for four whole days before being banned.