This pic of the site shows it near some rimrock type shelter and was near an ancient dried lakebed.

Large studies testing native American DNA shows that there was no pre-Columbus intrusion of European DNA into their genome. So, if early Europeans came to our continent they did not leave a genetic legacy.

My guess is that this date of human occupation has not stood up to the rigor of modern testing techniques.

That's what I thought

Very interesting

Good research BP. Puts in place popular ideas about humans in the Americas before ~ 18,000 years ago and about Euros being here before Columbus (other than the Vikings for a very short period about 1,000 AD). Seen these debates before where science gets in the way of good story.

I was referring the Denosian Man vs Cro-magnum Man species

Me too.

Unless they've been recently refuted studies I've saw show that American Indians have 1/3 European DNA pre Columbus.

Donner: Quote the reference to the peer reviewed study that shows Amerindians were 1/3 Euro pre-Columbus. If they were then they would look like black Americans are today: some are black, some are brown and some are proper white etc. with other physical characteristics. Why: so much Euro in them over the last 400 years. Now look at where they came from in Africa and those people are proper black.

Donner, I don't remember where I read it, but the source was very credible and basically said that with advances in testing methodology the idea of a pre-Columbus admixture of European DNA into native Americans had finally been put to rest. Zero authenticated cases out of hundreds of pre Columbus Indian remains that had had their DNA tested. I just read this within the last year or so.

The sea level back in those days was over 350 feet lower than today. I would imagine a huge amount of sites are currently under water. It was an amazingly different world back then and in the timeline of earth wasn't very long ago at all.

Oldest Human Occupation of North America ??? It sure wasn't a Demonrat!!!

I'm guessing the oldest occupation as either farming or hunting. I know this is a boring guess.

My bad...I should have stated "site occupation". As for what they were doing they left clues...ie: Bison antiquas bones and camel teeth. I think it is safe to say that 18,000 years ago all humans were hunter- gatherers. Agriculture came along about 7-8000 years later.

Undoubtably there are sites across the Americas that would have been occupied by man....but arid eastern Oregon had great conditions to preserve their leavings for us to study later. And like somebody said above, ocean levels were way different then and surely lots of campsites are now occupied by octopi and ling cod.

The wolly Mammoth went extinct only around 10,000 years ago.
Fresh Mammoth must have tasted pretty good.

Interesting find . Sadly when I read the headline the first thing I thought of was now there will be another group wanting reparations for something

Here's an article, there is a lot of articles from the 2013 era that cite a university of Copenhagen study that explored old DNA and showed it to contain Western European heritage
https://sciencenordic.com/anthropol...-native-americans-with-europeans/1393344

Always trust the science

Good Donner. Gotta look at this a little more.