Indian Sands (Brookings, Oregon)

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Indian Sands
LocationAddress restricted [1]
Nearest city Brookings, Oregon
NRHP reference No. 92000668
Added to NRHPJune 4, 1992

Indian Sands near Brookings, Oregon is an archaeological site that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [2]

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Archaeological finds

In 2002, a team of researchers from Oregon State University found evidence of human presence on the southern Oregon coast at the Indian Sands area of Boardman State Park dating more than 10,000 years ago — more than 2,000 years older than previously known archaeological sites on Oregon's coast. Carbon dating of artifacts (similar to ones found on the Alaskan and British Columbia coasts) suggested an origin approximately 12,000 years ago. [3] [4] [5]

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References

  1. Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archaeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC   20706997 .
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  3. "Ancient site of human activity found on Oregon coast". Oregon State University. 6 November 2002.
  4. Loren G. Davis (3 March 2006). "Geoarchaeological insights from Indian Sands, a Late Pleistocene site on the southern northwest coast, USA". Geoarchaeology. 21 (4): 351–361. doi:10.1002/gea.20108.
  5. Loren G. Davis (2008), New Support for a Late-Pleistocene Coastal Occupation at the Indian Sands Site, Oregon (PDF), Archaeology:North America (Vol. 25, p. 74-76, 2008)