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Archaeologists with the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School, excavating the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in eastern Oregon, have found an orange agate tool, right, that could be more than 14,000 years old.
Near the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter outside of Riley, Oregon, archaeologists recently discovered evidence suggesting one of the oldest known human occupations in the western United States.
Archaeologists with the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School have been excavating at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter since 2011. Their discoveries have included a number of stone projectile points and tooth enamel fragments likely belonging to a prehistoric camel (Camelops sp.) that became extinct approximately 13,000 years ago.
But what has the archaeological communi...
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