Arlington Springs Man site

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The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Paleoindian site
archaeological site
prehistoric human remains site
associatedWith Paleoindian settlement of the Americas
early Holocene coastal environments
continent North America
country United States
datingMethodUsed radiocarbon dating
discoveredBy Phil C. Orr NERFINISHED
discoveryYear 1959
estimatedAge Late Pleistocene
approximately 13,000 years before present
geologicalPeriod Pleistocene
hasAccessRestriction protected archaeological locality with restricted access
hasArchaeologicalCulture Paleoindian
hasDiscovery Arlington Springs Man remains
Arlington Springs Woman remains
hasEvidenceOf early coastal migration into the Americas
maritime-adapted hunter-gatherers
hasGenderInterpretation initially interpreted as male
later reinterpreted as possibly female (Arlington Springs Woman)
hasNameOrigin named after Arlington Canyon on Santa Rosa Island
hasNearbyFeature Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED
hasTypeOfRemains fragmentary bones
human skeletal remains
isOneOf oldest securely dated human skeletal sites in North America
locatedIn California
Channel Islands NERFINISHED
Santa Barbara County, California NERFINISHED
Santa Rosa Island NERFINISHED
United States
locatedOn former landmass of Santarosae Island
partOf Channel Islands National Park NERFINISHED
protectedAreaStatus within a U.S. national park
researchInstitutionInvolved Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
University of California, Santa Barbara NERFINISHED
significance contains some of the oldest known human remains in North America
evidence for early human occupation of the Channel Islands
subjectOf archaeological research on early peopling of the Americas
studies of early coastal migration routes

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Santa Rosa Island
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