Its date of approximately 13,800 to 13,900 calibrated years before the present places it among the earlier end of the well-documented Pacific Northwest pre-Clovis sites.

Its coastal location — the Olympic Peninsula is directly bordered by the Pacific Ocean — is consistent with the coastal migration model, though proximity to the coast does not prove coastal migration.

What Manis adds to the Pacific Northwest pre-Clovis record is something qualitatively different from most other sites: direct physical evidence of a specific hunting event.

Not just human presence, not just artifacts in sediment, but a weapon that was actually used on an animal that was actually killed or attacked, preserved in the physical record of that attack in an almost forensically precise way.

What The Evidence Does Not Reveal