num_pages: 76
description: Paperback, 76 pages with bibliography. Copies are numbered of this initial printing of 500 copies.  ABSTRACT A cranium found by author Ray Dickerson 50 years ago in Warner Valley in south-central Oregon, U.S.A., is described with accompanying photographs by Dr. Tyler. It exhibits archaic traits including a solid protruding brow, sloping forehead, lack of frontal eminences, round orbits, small volume of 1225 ml., round posterior contour, and parallel sides. By radio-carbon dating it is 1500 years old. It is submitted as representing a unique, newly reported species probably indigenous to North America. A Folsom point, arrowheads, and spear points he also found there are presented by author Dickerson. In addition to the Folsom point, he classifies 73 spear points and arrowheads as to their ages and similarities to styles found in other parts of North America. The Folsom point is approximately 10,000 years old, and the ages of the other 73 spear points and arrowheads range from 9,000 years to recent.  CONSISTENT RECENT REPORT Amy Dansie, an anthropologist at the Nevada State Museum reported 10,000 hours studying 550 burials excavated prior to 1900 in the Great Basin in Nevada, including five over 9000 years old. She noted, "The 9,000 to 9,500-year-old Spirit Cave Man, Wizards Beach Man, and Kennewick Man share some distinctive traits not often found in later western Native Americans, but which may be a combination of traits of a pre-racial common ancestor of all modern humans, and the emerging proto-Indian." Society for American Archaeology Bulletin, 17:30, at 31., May 1999.
title: Early Man in Oregon
titlecomplete: Early Man in Oregon
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publisher: Discovery Books