Cooper’s Ferry’s evidence for early human occupation along the Salmon River drainage is currently being expanded by ongoing excavations.

New sites in Oregon, British Columbia, and Washington State continue to produce evidence relevant to the question of when people first arrived in the Pacific Northwest and how they lived.

Manis is part of this ongoing story.

It is not the end of the chapter.

It is one of the most specific and most compelling pieces of evidence in a chapter that is still being written.

The Physical Evidence And What It Teaches Us