The case was as complete as fragmented terminal Pleistocene remains can reasonably be made.

A Deeper Indigenous History Of The Channel Islands

The Arlington Springs individual lived approximately 13,000 years ago.

What happened on the Channel Islands in the following thirteen millennia is a separate, complex, and only partially known story — but it is the context within which the modern meaning of the Arlington Springs find must be understood.

The Channel Islands were continuously inhabited after the terminal Pleistocene, with an archaeological record extending from the time of Arlington Springs through the Holocene and into the historical period.

Sites on Santa Rosa Island, San Miguel Island, and Santa Cruz Island document increasing human presence and complexity over time: evidence for fishing technology, shellfish harvesting, seed grinding, bead manufacture, and eventually the emergence of the social complexity and material culture that characterized the Chumash of the historical period.