An Oregon cave has yielded the oldest artefact ever found in the Americas.
An Oregon cave has yielded the oldest artefact ever found in the Americas.
Helen Thomas camp ground?
8,000 years before the Universe existed. Wow!
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I suspect things considerably older would be found if we could get at the ancient shorelines from when the ocean levels were lower.
In other news, Helen Thomas reports her purse was found.
Sen. Robert Byrd was found in Oregon?
Ping
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Whoops! And thanks hennie pennie.
“a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years”
I was wondering where I left that durned thang...
Thanks
Andy Garcia was here !
At first I thought it Oregon Caves, not caves in eastern Oregon.
Sunk, I remember some older articles about this same area, near Summer Lake. Paisly is on OR-31, between Summer Lake and Lake Albert. May have had something to do with Picture Rock Pass.
Do you still have them?
OTOH, it may not have been GGG List matterial, but I believe it was.
This is really not all that far (about 200 miles NW) from the caves where the (now missing) red haired (Lovelock NV) mummies were found decades ago.
They will probably continue to find evidence of earlier and earlier habitation by hominids, although I wonder how much evidence was wiped out by rising oceans at the end of the last ice age and the glaciers themselves.
"For the past 10 years, University of South Carolina archaeologist Dr. Albert Goodyear has been digging up artifacts that indicate humans lived here 37,000 years before the Clovis people arrived. His is a controversial theory he tries to prove each time he dusts off a rock or stone tool fragment."
"What he's finding at Topper is strengthening his argument. The artifacts Goodyear has uncovered are the oldest carbon-dated relics ever found in North America, at 50,000 and 51,000 years old."
"We came out with a dirt clod and inside the dirt clod was a human hair 14 inches long," she said. "It was so old there was no pigment."
"While scientists have yet to determine its age, the layer of soil it was in dates back 11,000 to 12,000 years.