This Archaeological Discovery in Oregon Could Change Human Origins

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In the high desert of eastern Oregon, beneath a low shelf of rock, a scientist held a small orange stone. Clinging to its edge was the dried residue of bison blood. Nearby lay the teeth of a camel that vanished from this land long ago. When the dates came back, they did not match the textbooks. Someone had knelt in this shelter far earlier than anyone was prepared to believe. The story of who that someone was begins here.

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SOURCES

Rimrock Draw Rockshelter (Oregon, ~18,250 years) — Bureau of Land Management press release:
https://www.blm.gov/press-release/testing-yields-new-evidence-human-occupation-18000-years-ago-oregon

White Sands Footprints (New Mexico, 21,000–23,000 years) — USGS news release confirming the dates:
https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/study-confirms-age-oldest-fossil-human-footprints-north-america

Bluefish Caves (Yukon, ~24,000 years) — Bourgeon et al. 2017, PLOS ONE:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169486

Cerutti Mastodon Site (San Diego, claimed ~130,000 years) — Holen et al. 2017, Nature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065

Genetic Evidence, D4h Mitochondrial DNA (China to the Americas) — Li et al. 2023, Cell Reports:
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)00424-2