The Sound Of Settled Science

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Everything keeps getting older.

Archaeologists have new evidence suggesting that humans occupied Oregon more than 18,000 years ago. This makes it one of the oldest known sites of human occupation in North America.

A 2023 radiocarbon dating analysis was made based on findings at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter near Burns, Oregon. The University of Oregon Archaeological Field School has been excavating at the site, which features a shallow overhang in an otherwise open environment. The field school has been working in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management since 2011.

Archaeologists have been studying how and when people migrated to the Americas for over a century. While researchers used to assume that no humans were on the continent until about 13,000 years ago — when they walked over the Bering Land Bridge during the last ice age — both genetic and archaeological evidence have been pushing that date back further and further. However, these dates have spurred controversy.

The time has come to have a conversation on a name change. (link fixed)

28 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  2. There is evidence of much earlier occupation in North (& South) America, on the order of a couple hunnert thousand years in NA. Read Graham Hancock. Archaeologists minds are exploding, the narrative is being threatened. Further research is required.

  3. It’s improbable that the only migration was 10k years ago across the bearing straight

    “The time has come to have a conversation on a name change.”

    First genociders?

      1. Allan was that an intentional pun or did you just stumble into it?

        Well all I’ll say is this, it’s definitely older than Eden.

  4. The irony of these ancient inhabitants being white would get me chuckling. Any chardonnay bottles popping up?

    1. Solutreans arrived from Northern Spain, Southern France Region over 25,000 years ago. Chesapeake Bay area is littered with evidence. Spear heads, Bones with flints, tool marks, ancient campfires, etc. The North American Indian is a hybrid of Asian, European, Polynesian and African DNA. The Haida indian can be traced back directly to the Ainu of Hokkaido, then to Japan, then Korea and finally to the region of Tibet.

      The Indian populations want to hide this history before they lose control of the narrative.

      1. The home islands of Japan used to be part of the mainland; they detached long after being peopled. The earliest inhabitants dated back at least 14,000 years. The current Japanese inhabitants, a complex mixture of Chinese, Korean, and Polynesian, arrived long after Japan became islands. The original settlers are long gone; no reparations need be paid.

        The “northern barbarians”, i.e. the aboriginal Ainu now confined to the island of Hokkaido, probably weren’t the original inhabitants either, but they might be a distant genetic relation. The experts really don’t know much definitively. Science is never “settled” about many things.

  6. They found a fragment of a camel tooth, they say.

    Doesn’t that strike anyone as odd?

    2. The Younger Dryas period was a time of depletion by hunters. Giant Sloths, mammoths, Bison Antiquus (3x larger than modern), Camels, Horses, etc were devoured out of existence by the rapidly multiplying humans. The new arrivals were coming from depleted regions, and once here and discovering such rich food resources, quickly replaced the animal populations.

      2. Humans did not eat anything out if existence.
        The Younger Dryas was a cataclysmic event that wiped out a lot of animals and did massive geological changes.
        Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock multiple episodes on Rogan which are very entertaining plus Carlson has his own podcast, Kosmographia. A good listen, entertaining. Petty well blowing the narrative out of the water,

        1. I guess we’ll just ignore the spearheads embedded in the bones of the animals found near the carbon dated Younger Dryas firepits then.

  7. Burns, Oregon… halfway between the edge and the middle of nowhere.

    Still, it is beautiful country, if you like that sort of landscape. If you can find water, a decent life is possible out there.

  8. So the First Nations weren’t first after all. They were merely the first settlers, stealing the land from the true aboriginals. How deliciously ironic.

    1. There were no first nations as DNA evidence concludes they were a hybrid of arriving cultures. Wars, slave trades, bartering for spouses etc, withh the arriving waves of peoples from Europe, Asia, Polynesia, Africa, and parts unknown, created an almost altogether new people. The Indians of North America in many ways are the U.N. of the past, representing a little of everything.

  12. Its not like they had TV and the internet eating up all their time.. Realistically, everybody could have gotten to north and south America..
    The idea that we needed a ice age seems to be untrue.. So they had boats of some sort.. Fishing would progress into trade and trade into exploration.. Lots of free time..

    They exploited their environment to the fullest and they had 1%ers doing their own version of the moon landing.. Do we not have crazy people crossing the ocean in tiny boats?.. Killing themselves mountain climbing?.. Getting crushed into paste at the bottom of the ocean?..

    Yes we do and so did they.. Bring a few girls and a pointy sick or two and your ready to make a go of it..

  14. Human beings have been on the planet for thousands of years. Who was here or there first is meaningless. Only the living can own or control.

  16. What if we call it the Assembly of Last Nations to be Here When the White Man Showed Up?

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