We are not seeing the full range of technologies that the first Americans developed and used.

The Pacific Northwest Connection

The Manis site sits in a specific geographic context that is worth understanding more fully: the Pacific Northwest Coast and its immediate hinterland, a region that has its own history of pre-Clovis and early-Holocene research.

The Pacific Northwest has been at the center of debates about migration routes and early human presence in the Americas for decades.

One of the hypotheses that has gained considerable scientific traction in recent years is the coastal migration model — the idea that the initial peopling of the Americas was accomplished not through the interior ice-free corridor between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets, but along the Pacific Coast, with people moving southward by boat or foot along the coast as the ice sheets retreated.