The 13,000-Year-Old Man Found On A California Island — And The Dating Test That Changed The Story Of America’s First Migration
The Chumash connection to the Channel Islands is deep and well-documented in the historical and archaeological record.
Whether the specific individual whose femora were found at Arlington Springs was biologically ancestral to any living Chumash person is unknowable and may always be unknowable.
But the Channel Islands have been Chumash territory for millennia, and the people who received the remains back in 2022 have the deepest historical and cultural connection to the landscape where those remains were found.
What Future Research Might Find
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