Arlington Springs Man

It didn't really make too much of a splash.

And then what happens just I think in part by the luck of the Channel Islands becoming a national park in the 1980s is there's a resurvey of like, what do we have here? What have we discovered? What what are these islands all about? And with better radiocarbon calibration methods, it appeared to be the case that these this bone, this Arlington Springs man, as they call him for the site where they found it, appears to actually be slightly older than the very famous Clovis point, you know, that we know Clovis points, Clovis points.

Clovis First was like the major paradigm in archaeology because for years it was thought that, you know, North Americans came down from Alaska through kind of the Intermountain West.

And then, you know, we found all those Clovis points all over the country.

Well, the Arlington Springs man isn't the only... archaeological sample that kind of upends that Clovis First idea and suggests that North American habitation might have actually started from the coast.

It's not the only data point.

There's older stuff in South America and there's better samples that aren't necessarily bones that are also older all over Alaska and a few ones scattered here and there on the West Coast.