The 13,000-Year-Old Man Found On A California Island — And The Dating Test That Changed The Story Of America’s First Migration
There is no associated artifact assemblage from the original bones.
Orr’s 1962 paper was explicit: no artifacts were directly associated with the oldest bones.
The individual was not buried with tools, food, or ornaments that were preserved alongside the femora.
The context was not a deliberate grave with burial goods; Orr interpreted it as an accidental burial in sediments near a cienaga — a marshy area.
Small chert flakes have been recovered from the relevant archaeological stratum during later work at the site, but these are from the cultural layer generally, not from direct association with the femoral remains themselves.
There is no ancient DNA from this individual.