“But of course there’s more research to do.”
Bureau of Land Management, in an interview.
“This is really exciting,” said Stephen Baker, spokesman for the Oregon office of the U.S. If its age is confirmed, the tool would be nearly 3,000 years older than the widespread artifacts of the Clovis culture, once thought to be the continent’s earliest inhabitants. But this artifact was found even deeper in the region’s sandy clay, beneath a layer of volcanic ash that experts have found to be 15,800 years old.
