[blam]

Kennewick Man's relatives?

[blam]

GGG Ping.

&

A coastal archaeologists ping.

[Coyoteman]

Their theory: these older sediments hold the greatest potential for holding late Pleistocene (older than about 11,000 years) or early Holocene sites.

I learned that in grad school! If you want a 10,000 year old site, better find 10,000 year old dirt.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Humans may have come to Oregon earlier than 12,000 years ago,****

Years ago, on a National Geograohic special, L.S.B. Leakey, of Kenya fame, came to the U.S. and toured a site that was estimated to be about 12000 years old. Out of his African element, he declared the artifacts were actually 120000 years old.
No one there believed him but no one corrected him because he was the patron saint of evolution.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

This is in MY neighborhood!

http://mapper.acme.com/?lat=43.030485&long=-124.41528&scale=15

I'm 4 miles south of Bandon on Hwy 101

About 1 1/2 miles due west to the ocean,
I can hear it at night.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

PING

[Dustbunny]

What a great find.

As for their 'theory' of when man arrived and how early, I reserve my right to be very skeptical.

[Bernard Marx]

"At that time, the ocean was much lower and the shoreline was a few kilometers west," Hall said, "meaning that any site that was on the coast during the late Pleistocene is now under water."

We've been telling them here at FR for years now that the earliest migrants came by sea probably before or during the last Ice Age. If I was in a freezing cold boat of some kind I'd want to put ashore wherever I could to build a fire, whip up some Pleistocene equivalent of cioppino or oysters Rockefeller and rest for the next stage of the trip south to the warm country.

The oldest human remains in California, maybe in North America, were found just a few miles from where I live in the Channel Islands. Arlington Springs Woman So was a pygmy mammoth (which seems to excite researchers much more than the significant human remains!)

Working on that assumption it might be wise (to paraphrase Sam Kinnison) to Go Where the Artifacts Are!

[Ptarmigan]

Could be. I think Ainus/Polynesian likely. They were likely the first to come to the Americas.

[SunkenCiv]

Yahoo version, thanks DLR.

[Salvation]

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