I can't wait for this video! I have been living in Oregon for 24 years, after moving here when 20. Eugene's natural history museum has the oldest known pair of shoes at 13,500 years approx.

Science must be evidence based. If there is no evidence, science should remain silent. So every time we hear claims of 'earliest' we must recall that it is the earliest for which we have evidence. Kayleigh is very careful about that, which I really like. If we have evidence for 18,250 years ago, can we rule out 24,000 years ago? No, but neither do we have direct evidence. Science must be conservative, even if journists want to be sensational. Kayleigh does a great job of being interesting but not delviing into raw speculation.

I thought I was current on the most recent discoveries in North America, but I missed this critical gem. Thanks for surfacing it for me, Kayleigh. Great job.

Having been in a few isolated spots in the N.W. I've argued for decades that humans have been here as early as 20k years ago. It is interesting that the obsidian trail up by Sisters has been traced to a site in great lakes 3500 years ago

20,000 years ago the Pacific ocean was about 120 meters (393 feet) lower than it is today. That's where you would be most likely to find archaic evidence of people entering North America. BTW, this was a well done presentation.

I was born and raised in Oregon. It is exciting that this discovery was found here. Thank you for sharing.

Hey, that's where I'm from! Something I hadn't thought about before is how great this area is for dating archeological sites. We have a ton of volcanos around here. Specifically the one you mentioned, Mt. Saint Helens, has a massive eruption every century or two. It completely blew its top in 1980, coating everything in ash for about a hundred miles in every direction. It had a minor eruption in 2008 and it developed a distinct hunch. It looks different that it did when I was a kid, and it hasn't been that long. It was this huge, flat plateau, now it's a jagged molar on the skyline. My point is, it erupts frequently, coating everything in an unmistakable layer of ash, and it's just been doing that since it's been there. That's some pretty strong evidence for dating digs around here. P.S, visit if you can, we have some amazing geography. The Missoula floods carried a bunch of stuff here, and we have just... so many volcanoes.

There is a lot of research about humans in Europe. It's nice to see a few glimpses of humans in America. I have always had a fascination with the Clovis culture. I think they gave rise to a culture that dominated the central plains of northern America. I could be wrong, but I remember a culture that developed quite a civilization in the central plains. Though like much of history the story of their existence vanished.

Amazing how prehistory gets rewritten one discovery at a time!

Its time for the old thinking american archeologists to drop the Clovis-first bone. There are, and it has been for many years now, solid evidences of older human occupations in Chile, in Brazil and lots of sites even in North America.

Awesome! I live about 4 hours away from this site and I am fascinated by both the geology and early human history in this area. We are only scratching the surface of early human civilizations around the world.

Surprised you didn't make a video on the confirmation of the giant sloth pendants dating to 25-27k years ago in Brazil. You mentioned it here at least but deserves its own video!

Its fascinating to think Humans occupied lands way way earlier than our minds were willing to believe!

I’m glad you mentioned those early brazilian sites in this. There’s some really interesting research coming out of that region. From my understanding the discovery of paleolithic human remains in the americas is very rare, so expecting to find human remains to validate those early brazilian sites does seem like a very high bar to clear. Those holes drilled within the sloth bones seems good evidence imo, especially in conjunction with the other findings there. Hard to see how those drilled holes could have been natural. Fascinating topic regardless. Thanks for the work you do on these.

I know at Fort Rock here in Orygun OSU found native shoes that were 10,000 years old. This discovery is very exciting.

I live in Coos Bay, Oregon (usually Or-e-gun, but Or-e-gone works) and studied archeology in college. One of my professors, a Native American, brought in stone tools from early coastal tribes. Thanks for this recent update on human evidence here. As you say people were wandering all over prior to finding the Rimrock Draw site. Funny to think that was a desired home spot, or migration hotspot destination for so many. Hopefully we'll find more habitation evidence in other parts of the state. Archeologists are like the ultimate skeptics and a bit reluctant to discard pet theories (like Clovis being the earliest). No doubt people have been here for a very long time.

You rock Kayleigh !!!!! another outstanding video 😺🤗

Fascinating 😃👍👍 We need more people becoming archeologists and getting out there doing fieldwork, and discovering more proof of what we already know innately...we were here, long ago, and thrived.😎👍 More please 😊👍 😎✌👍❤🖖

Probably the most unanswered question in USA

It's wild that camels not only lived in the USA, but lived in Oregon.

As a native Oregonian, thumbs up!

Human beings inherited the Earth much longer before than we’ve been told. Keep up the great work, even the tinyiest grains of truth are worth reporting!!!

I've been living in Oregon since 1999. Born in Las Vegas and not going back. Thanks for the video

So proud of my university. Dr. O'Grady was a huge reason I went into archaeology. I got to do my field school at Paisley with Dennis Jenkins. I can confirm that we are extremely careful when we recover coprolites. Any time one would be exposed, the team would get into full hazmat suits. Hell of an experience to be in those suits in the middle of the desert in July 😅 What a cool time to be an Oregon archaeologist 👍

Love your content. You always have some great points to make and a fresh perspective. Keep up the good work!❤

Wonderful reporting, keep it up. BTW it's Oregon as in OryGUN!

Kayleigh you did your usual excellent job. Skeptics are not surprising but this is exciting news. I teach in a Tribal College and am going to speak with our elders and get their spin on this. Keep doing your excellent work

It was learning about the Clovis culture that got me interested in anthropology. I am really enjoying these new discoveries, especially since I am surrounded by awesome sites as I live out in Utah.

Great episode. Just to let you know we pronounce it Orygun with the Y sound almost silent so it's almost like Or-gun, but never (Or-E-gone). But don't worry about it too much because no one gets it right including everyone else in the US. It's particularly grating when they mispronounce it on the national news.

I am glad you and other's are changing the paradigm about when the first Americans arrived, however i do think this will keep changing as there is some evidence already that humans arrived much much earlier. Thank you!

Oh, stop people. I am ALWAYS impressed how she pronounces all of the "big" words, names, ect., concerning her topics.

This is something the indigenous people here have always known and it just makes sense. Hopefully these studies are being done with respect and in cooperation with local tribes. Thanks for sharing this.

I used to think scientific challenges and scepticism were a bad, mean thing. Now i know that we need this scientific scepticism because that is a valid and legitimate part of the scientific process and search for factual truths. Testing, re-testing and alternative explanations are needed to get to the facts. Coverups and ignoring robust, valid results are not welcome. I have learned a lot by watching Kaylees' videos. Thank you for educating me Kaylee!

Kayleigh - thanks for keeping us informed with the older archaeologic sites in the Americas. I appreciate the new knowledge that you provide. On the East Coast of North America, we have Meadowcroft in PA, Thunderbird Site in VA, Cactus Hill in VA, Saltville in VA, and Topper in SC that are all older than the Clovis period. When your boyfriend is away, at least you can drive now!

Just found ya page! I'll be binge watching now from the beginning of your channel. What a great creator you are fostering our knowledge! Great JOB🙌 There just might be a new patron down the line. 😊

Thank you for covering this! I just heard about it a few weeks ago but have been unable to find anything substantial. You rock!

The continual push back in time for human occupation of NA is not surprising to me at all!! The same revision is occurring all over the world. There's much we don't know and we all must keep an open mind to even more revisions!! I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work and thank you.

I have spent a huge amount of time running around in the Oregon high desert, and have always thought the various terrain features I've seen would hold ancient life signs. I guarantee there are a lot more out there to find.

great to see progress in understanding this era is slowly coming as more data is uncovered. thank you for getting it out on KZfaq!

Incredible that nobody considers boats as a way that the first people came to the Americas

Very nice job, Kayleigh… very fact, and evidence based, no speculations, or assumptions…

Great channel. I’m glad you challenge the orthodoxy in a very well informed way. Keep up the good work!

It's certainly a reasonable placeto find human habitation , if the migration went down the coast. The sad thing is that there are probably many early West Coast sites now under hundreds of feet of water, Underwater archaeology has made much progress, but a few fathoms under the Mediterranean isn't the same as hundreds below the Pacific.

Here where I live in central wyoming during the 80's. The gravel quary uncovered the bones of a woman who died about 10k years ago. Being an old river bed the archeologists guessed she fell through the ice or was swept into it. Only about half her bones were found since they either determined, washed away or were crushed by the rock crusher.

When I was studying Archaeology back in 1980's there was already a theory that had been proposed that when humans migrated across the 3rd Bering Straight land bridge (there were 2 land bridges prior to the last one). That this group of people encountered humans already living in the "Americas". The two main factors that were used to support the theory was fist there was a huge and fast cultural shift in the people from where they came from to how they were living in the new world. This large cultural change could be from two different cultures encountering each other. The second was even in 1970's the dates of human archaeological sites in South America were such that it was harder and harder to say a migrating peoples from the 3rd land bridge had time to make it to South America.

That was fascinating and interesting. I really enjoyed your live video because it gave me some insight into who you are as a person. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. Stay well and be happy.

Hi Kayleigh from here in Orygun :). I always love your channel for its content and information. This was particularly interesting. Please don't stop.

That is so cool. It's wonderful to see the progress made in archaeology since my school days (fifties and sixties). Subscribed. Cheers from cloudy Vienna, Scott

Thanks Kayleigh! Interesting stuff as ever. One of the problems with direct genetic evidence is that it usually requires relatively well preserved tooth or bone. This is rare in older finds. If humans were in South America before the ice age peak, there may have been very small numbers of them; quite possibly none survived the ice age. Finding any useful evidence under these conditions is unlikely. Maybe we'll be lucky or maybe there was a thriving population. Time and diligent archeology will tell. I hope you get to do a follow up video in a few years.

I had found a strange arrow head dating way back. But due to the on going dumb credentialed thought I was wrong. I also found a older artifact tool. Found a fossilized ammonites

My yard is located across a river from the Sweets Knoll and Boats sites in Dighton, MA, which I believe dates to the paleoindians 10-12,000 years ago. I recently found some really fascinating artifacts and brought them to be looked at by an expert and he told me what I’ve found date to at least 8,000 years and possibly as early as 12,000 years ago. There was a massive dig done in 1969 in my back yard, it’s called the Bear Swamp Site I & Site II in Berkley, MA. If anyone’s interested, the dig was published in the 1969 Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archeological Society- Volume 30, by Arthur Staples and Roy C. Athearn.

This site is being researched and dug, carefully, by a friend of mine, Dr. Pat O'Grady and his field teams. I've spent a few days as a guest at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter site as seen in Kayleighs presentation here. Dr O'Grady is out there working now and will see if he has a good enough connection to recieve this presentation. All the best and Thank you Kayleigh! Bill

The Americas are so vast that archaeologists will find themselves rewriting the scientific record for centuries to come (if we're still here!).

It sparks my imagination to think about what day-to-day life was like in North America 20,000 years ago. Were there Camel races like in the Sahara ? I wonder how their lifestyle compared to the nomadic first nations life that we are familiar with in recent history. How were these people related to the indiginous people of our time? Did the trade routes to South America exist 20,000 years ago? oh boy - I'd love to hang out at that dig site. Thanks for your analysis Kayleigh.

I enjoy watching your videos. You give another viewpoint that's not contaminated by narrow-minded (narrow banded) education. These scientists just cannot seem to think outside of the box. Thank you for bringing us another video on human history. I dig history, and I'm sure that there is more human history that is yet to be discovered.

From the US and this is great news. Thank you!

Fellow researchers will scoff??? Whoda thunk?? :D Thanks again for your enthusiastic reporting on early human history!

I think it's cool.Glad there are people who do this work and super glad they manage to get funding. It takes a lot of time, money and hard work. I admire the people doing this work. Thanks for the video!

I am excited by this. As a European salad with some spice, Native American history is some of my history too. Of course there are skeptics. There always are, some people do not like change. I would rather there be new evidence to change the narrative. Go over the old stuff with new eyes and an open mind. Staying in a closed box causes stagnation.

I’m really glad to see you covering this topic. I lived in the region where this took place. I’ve told this story many times and no one has ever responded. I believe humans occupied North America and especially the ION (Idaho, Oregon, Nevada) region for far longer than what we are being told. The grievance is on multiple levels and when you understand one circumstance another one presents itself. So here’s the thing. People used stone to make tools. Arrow heads, spear heads, scraping tools, digging tools, drills etc…. You can determine the age of that tool thus the era of that civilization based on what type of rock was used. The fashion in which it is designed and where was it found. There are predominantly three types of stone used to make tools. Obsidian, Agate and Jasper. In this region of the ION there was a massive volcanic eruption around 640,000 years ago that resulted in the exposure of agate and jasper. The prehistoric people used agate and jasper for tools. Then 320,000 years later another eruption occurred in the same area and exposed obsidian. Obsidian is far superior to the other stones. Razor sharp and easily fashioned. The Native American people for the last 10,000 years used mostly obsidian. Ok, so if obsidian was readily available and in huge amounts for the last 320,000 years then why did the prehistoric people not use it?

The discoveries in Oregon, including this one, often come from or near the edge of lo g dried iceage basin lakes easily identified on Google Earth and also used to define or frame date ranges.

The father of a friend of mine was an archeologist professor here in Utah. He believed that humans had been in N America for 20-30,000 years. He new that about 50 years ago. I believe it was tools he had found that supported his claim. Smart man.

Thanks for explaining the importance the volcanic ash covering over the find and also the problems with dating objects buried in limestone.

Is the Monday upload a feature now or will you be going back to Sunday? I prefer Monday if I'm honest, I find it hard to get back from the hills in time sometimes on a Sunday.

This is fascinating, and begs several questions that I am not qualified to ask in todays society. I'll never truly understand how we as humans were supposedly stone age derps for roughly 100,000 years (or more) but then suddenly without explanation progressed through copper, bronze, iron, industrial, and into the space age in about 3,000. The best part is when anyone challenges that thought they are attacked and harassed as pseudo-archeologists or whatever. Even the 'entry level' archeologists and historians act like gatekeepers, etc. 🤷‍♂

I believe a great place to look for archeological evidence of humans that is below sea level would be the Sea lion caves in Oregon. When the ocean level was lower those big caves would be a perfect place to live and thrive along the coast in Oregon.

Great videos! Love them! Thanks for sharing!❤

That hand tool with the bison blood on it was a "smoking gun" in a way. Hard to dispute that.

You should check out Eastern Canada for ancient sites. A lot of it is submerged under the water that no one even talks about. But their drill core samples from the offshore oil and gas exploration it shows that there were at least campfire charcoal leftover and hunting sites

I stayed in a shallow rock shelter for a week in Missouri - much more shelter than is apparent.

So cool, love the ancient North American history...🇨🇦

This is fascinating, the interaction between people and the Pleistocene megafauna was longer than we thought. If only we found cave art in the Americas comparable to Altamira, Lascaux or Chauvet!!! Thanks Kayleigh!!

Fossilized poop!?!? I'm really glad I didn't take up archeology!! Love your information and analysis. Keep up the good work.

This episode was very stimulating. Found it to be very enlightening.

Great video! So happy I found your channel!

Did you do a video of a skeleton found in an underwater Florida cave dating back about 19,000 years ago?

Oregon is pronounced or-gone, we don't pronounce the E. Good video, very interesting! -t. lived here my whole life.

Great video, Kayleigh...👍

I’m delighted with your information on this discovery. Thank you so much

It really kills me how the "established" archaeologist hate to even think of anyone in the Americas until the past 16K years. Thanks for the video Kaylee.

Considering I live in Oregon, this is exciting news!! Thanks for this video!!

Just an FYI, it's "Orygun" as opposed to "OraGone" if you don't want to pain to the tender ears of us residents 😉

I fought fire in Oregon on a handcrew. They called us in to help dig a little deeper at this site before they had to wrap it up in 2017 before the end of fire season….. dude literally said they found a orange tool there…. This has to be the same site!

As a Native American living in Japan I find this interesting. The prehistoric ancestors of Japanese have been found by tooth morphology not to be direct decendents of Native Americans, but they may share a more common ancestor somewhere in the order of 30,000+ years ago. Linguistically they are pretty distinct from old world languages although it borrows a lot from the Nearby Asian languages. However it actually functions very similarly to at least Algonquin languages (I don't have experience with others). I'm thinking that it's possible that the people that originally occupied the Japan archapilego may have come from NA, and while they were mixed with other populations that came up the East Asia coast from the south the NA culture and language still remained strong. It's just a big guess but if the wolf, horse and camel are all animals that settled the main continents after coming from NA so I'm wondering why the same can't be said for humans. The pre-pre-people journeyed over to NA way earlier than hypothisized and then some pre-people made their way back. A pulsing flow of people over dozens of millenia to and from the old and new could explain the genetic and archeological inconsitencies.

Kayleigh I have read articles about the DNA studies on the American Indians that indicate that the American Indian DNA is much more diversified then thought possible and indicate very old mixing of their DNA with others much older than would be possible if the Clovis people were the first people in the Americas.

Great work! Love it!

I was always of the impression that humans likely arrived in the Americas 30-35k years ago, but that evidence was needed. Certainly 20K does not seem unreasonable. I expect with time conformation might come. What would be interesting to know is whether there was ever a reverse migration or exchange at some point. Was the Bering Strait a total human check valve.

hello, Kayleigh! turned this thing on and, POW! H W K premiere in 2 minutes.....phew! made it! yay! Monday or Sunday or any day.....hate to miss these ok, you mispronounce a few words....no biggie....i've never had a problem with not knowing what you're saying.....i, and most of us, would have a harder time pronouncing Dutch, or any other language, than you do with English....one of the hardest languages because of the slew of meanings or pronunciations of many words....not to mention, differences in different English speaking countries....or different areas of said countries.....folks should be ashamed for going on about it.....keep on keepin' on, darlin' i wish some folks would read the same papers before saying you're wrong or mistaken or ? they act like you're the author of the paper(s) you are citing.....if they're so knowledgeable they should argue with the scientists involved with the discoveries....probably afraid to tackle the folks who could give 'em a good argument.....when i disagree with something you state, i research the subject, myself....you make it easy.....usually give us links to the works you are citing...thanks sssooo, i guess i've ranted enuff.....excellent video, Klee! that humans were here before the Clovis timeline is, pretty much a done deal... can't argue with the evidence here... bison blood on a stone point, petrified human poop....these things can be dated quite accurately, yes? and, the White Sands footprints, stone tools found with 34,000 (or something)yrs ago mammoth bones....pretty obvious they were here much earlier....but, that's science for you... always changing with new discoveries.... always enjoy these, immensely😊 see you....Sun?... or whenever👍 Bye👋😘

Dear Kayleigh, your mind has been complimented, your attractiveness noted, but has anyone ever told you that you have incredible stature? I've only noted it in people who are regular practitioners of demanding physical arts like dance, martial arts, military fitness. In a world of soft slouches, you are a treasured example of what homo sapiens sapiens is capable of. And still a looker! 😉😍

Love your videos and keep up the great work!

I knew camels existed in North America, but I didn't realize they existed that late.

One step away from talking about giants Kayleigh

I never did believe the old story about the Alaska Land Bridge. I would like to know more about the "Mound Builders" who .....some were actually giants. It is criminal what the Smithsonian has done to hide true history. Kayleigh is my favorite teacher.

Fun fact Oregon also has the largest and maybe oldest organism in the world - armillaria ostoyae.

I live in Upstate NY. I was walking in a little known falls in the woods. The creek was dry and I stumbled across a large Boulder the size of a foot stool. I saw a very distinct footprint. It was obvious. I put my foot next to it and it was similar size and shape. I can see the toes too. I took a photo. I sent to a paleontologist in Cornell University. He was shocked and said it’s impossible. Man has been here only 3-4k years ago. He asked where I found it. I told him. Next week I went back and it was missing. The first email I sent, one of the paleontologists said I was an ignorant uneducated person! I still have the photo and everyone I show said the same thing. That is clearly a human footprint!

Even those people would be saddened by what Oregon has become....

I’m happy your boyfriend is coming back so you aren’t lonely ❤ as someone who spent 21 years in the army as a combat medic I know how it can be lol. I moved to Oregon as a kid and love hearing this stuff, it’s always been my belief that we don’t really know anything, some researchers are so afraid of being proven wrong that they refuse to acknowledge new discoveries. Thank you for those with open minds that aren’t offended if they are wrong about something, it’s the only way we can learn ❤

Hey!!! That's my home state!! Oregon is so beautiful

Hi dear Kayleigh. I respect you and your show very much and am a fan. Please know that the pronunciation of Oregon is actually Ore-GUN not Ore-GONE. Keep up the great work!

Hey Kayleigh - that was a good summarization, thank you. I am a big fan, maybe you could cover the Cooper's Ferry site in Idaho?