13,000-Year-Old Bones Found Near SoCal Coast Could Rewrite Human History

New York Post ^ | July 7, 2026 | Ross O'Keefe

[nickcarraway]

Findings from a mysterious remote chain of islands off the coast of California are rattling bones in the science community as bone-pickers find traces of a “vanished world.”

The Golden State’s Channel Islands, located several miles off the SoCal coast, are home to the remnants of revelational lost civilizations intriguing enough to make Indiana Jones blush. A banner finding in the area has been the 13,000-year-old remains of the “Arlington Springs Man,” the earliest dated adult found on the continent.

A new documentary highlighted the extraordinary discovery, which has changed science’s thinking around where and when humans first migrated to North America. Because of the finding of the “Arlington Springs Man,” scientists believe humans could have been on the continent earlier than the Clovis culture recognized as landing in the area first.

[Salman]

Rewrite human history?

Again?

[Buttons12]

Probably chasing food up and down the coast for millennia. Whales make good tentpoles!

[Adder]

Rewrite history??

Not hardly...

[Magnum44]

[Mr. Blond]

So we can put all the Indians on the Channel Islands.

[11th_VA]

I like your answer - going to memorize it

[Big Red Badger]

I’ve crawled over Megaliths 60 miles East of San Diego that are Older
Than the Pyramids !
.
I could be wrong.

[central_va]

Arlington Springs Man? Northern Virginia loser.

[suasponte137]

These were probably the original inhabitants of the Americas that the”native” Americans likely enslaved and killed after they came across the Bering straight into this continent

[muir_redwoods]

“ I like your answer - going to memorize it”

Thank you. Another point I like to make is it’s never a good idea for your culture to be loitering in the Mesolithic when the Enlightenment shows up on your shores.

[wally_bert]

Based on my time working for a Scot based corporation, I’ll pass.

[sphinx]

The best Scotsmen came to the U.S. I won’t vouch for those who stayed behind.

[wally_bert]

I know one.

One of the best people I’ve ever met emigrated from Scotland. Mechanical engineer super genius and very down to earth guy.

[sphinx]

The earliest immigrant in my family (direct line) arrived from Scotland as an indentured servant in Lancaster County, VA, in 1653. I doubt very much that he was a super genius, but was probably a very down to earth guy. My branch of the family tree drifted west with the frontier. I don’t have ancestors shivering with George Washington at Valley Forge; mine were in the mountains fighting Indians.

They were north of the Ohio River very early and wore blue during the slaveholders’ revolt. They were mostly hillbillies. My maternal grandfather was still a sharecropper, and my mom’s generation were the first to go to college — some of them, anyhow; others stayed home and farmed. But we all have our clan ties and a couple of CDs of bagpipe music. I have adopted Captain Blood as my American origin story, and if lefties get uppity, I use that to advance my case for reparations.

My dad’s family were all German and came over in the 1820’s.

[wally_bert]

The only other Scottish thing I have is my grandmother on dad’s side was a Ross.

My genealogy researcher cousin was fairly sure a distant relative of Betsy Ross.

That was in the 90s.

[SunkenCiv]

• When Did Humans Come to the Americas? [01/27/2013]
• LUZIA - Second Oldest Human Skeleton Ever Found In The Americas [11/18/2004]
• Fishing Permanently Banned Around the Channel Islands [10/24/2002]
• 'Arlington Springs Woman', 13,000 Years Old Human Skeleton, California Island [09/03/2002]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Wuli]

Wait till DNA tests show the human was not related to “North American Native Indians”.

[Red Badger]

Not necessarily. He had to get there from somewhere.....

[Red Badger]