Earliest traces

of human
activity in
north america

Author: Dimitar Al. Dimitrov ©

2019
 Preface
The earliest history of the American continent is shrouded in mystery. The scientists claim that the first men set
foot in what is now America around 13000 BC. But there are lot of finds which date from much earlier times.

Along with Australia, this is the continent on which written history was brought much too late (16th century
AD) to be able to uncover even the slightest truth about the early development of the native cultures. Which lead
us only to the field of the archaeology, if we want to understand America’s ancient past.

I will make an attempt here to gather all the available (trustworthy!) archaeological data and present an easy-to-
understand and interesting image of the earliest North Americans.
 c. 320 000 000 – 286 000 000 BC

Human bones from that period were found in 1862 in Macoupin County, Illinois. Here’s the report from the
American journal “The Geologist”, December 1862:

“In Macoupin County, Illinois, the bones of a man were recently found on a coal-bed capped with two feet of
slate rock, ninety feet below the surface of the earth… The bones, when found, were covered with a crust or
coating of hard glossy matter, as black as coal itself, but when scraped away left the bones white and natural.”

The coal, in which the remains were found, have been dated at between 320 and 286 million years BP.

c. 320 000 000 – 260 000 000 BC

On June 9th, 1891, Mrs. S. W. Culp of Morrisonville, Illinois, was reported to have found an eight-carat gold
chain in a lump of 230 million year old coal.
North America 75 000 000 years ago
 c. 50 000 000 BC

Humans inhabited the region of what is now known as Table Mountain, Tuolumne County, California. Human
remains and artifacts were found there in the second half of 19th century and officially published in Harvard in
1880.

c. 5 000 000 – 2 500 000 BC

Human skull of a person who lived in those years was found in 1866 near Angels Creek in Calaveras County,
California.

c. 2 000 000 BC

Anthropomorphic figurine made during that period was found in 1889 in Nampa, Idaho.

Nampa figurine’s discovery was described by George Fredrick Wright, a geologist from the Boston Society of
Natural History: “There is no ground to question the fact that this image came up in the sand pump from the depth
reported… In visiting the locality in 1890 I took special pains, while on the ground, to compare the discoloration
of the oxide upon the image with that upon the clay balls still found among the debris which had come from the
well, and ascertained it to be as nearly identical as it is possible to be. These confirmation evidences, in connection
with the very satisfactory character of the evidence furnished by the parties who made the discovery, and
confirmed by Mr. G. M. Gumming, of Boston (at that time the superintendent of that division of the Oregon Short
Line Railroad, and who knew all the parties, and was upon the ground a day or two after the discovery) placed the
genuineness of the discovery beyond reasonable doubt.”

c. 400 000 – 200 000 BC

 In 1871, a copper coin was found in Lawn Ridge, Marshall County, Illinois, during a well boring in rock strata
at a depth of somewhere between 114 – 125 feet. It was reported by William E. Dubois of the Smithsonian
Institution the same year. In 1990’s, the Illinois State Geological Survey confirmed the age of the deposits at the
114 feet level at that location “somewhere between 200 000 and 400 000 years ago.” The coin contains enigmatic
figures and inscriptions on both sides in an unknown language.

200 000 BC

Tools of that time were found in the Calico Early Man Site, an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake
located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of southern California. Material
recovered from nested Pleistocene alluvial deposits stratigraphically beneath a 100 000-year-old soil profile
include a “rock ring” dated to about 200 000 years BP and a stone tool dated to over 200 000 BP.

In 1959 Louis Leakey, while at the British Museum of Natural History in London, received a visit from Ruth
DeEtte Simpson, an archaeologist from California, who showed him ancient scrapers from the Calico Hills. In
1963, Leakey received funds from the National Geographic Society and started archaeological excavations with
Simpson. They located stone artifacts which were dated to 100 000 years BP or older. The archaeologist Jeffrey
Goodman who worked at the site with Leakey made statements that the artifacts found at Calico Hills may be as
old as 500 000 years BP and, if proven, would be the oldest human artifacts in the world, which would place
human origins in the Americas.
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