Three Oregonian articles today of interest

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Two articles in the Science section of today's Big O by Richard Hill
about the recent anthro news that people may have first arrived here
by boat rather than by walking across the Bering Strait land bridge.

"First migrants: By land or by sea? Oregon anthropologists shed new
light on earliest cultures and nautical migration to North America."
http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/99/07/st070727.html

"Bones off coast may date back 13,000 years; The finding on an island
off California supports the notion that the first humans in America
came by boat."  http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/99/07/st070728.html

And his review of what sounds like a terrific book, carefully
researched, aimed at a lay audience and years in the making:

"Northwest coast's earliest residents led sophisticated lives,
authors say," about the new book by Kenneth M. Ames and Herbert D.G.
Maschner, "Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and
Prehistory." http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/99/07/st070729.html

Alas, the book is $45 ($31 at Amazon,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500050910/qid%3D931428688/002-2783207-1989667
)

P.S.  I found this enviable sig/tagline in a message on
Alt.Culture.Oregon:

________________________________________________________________________
Derek R. Larson           Indiana University        Dept. of History
 	 	"Nothing interesting occurred today..." 
	-Meriwether Lewis at Ft. Clatsop, Oregon, Jan.4th, 1806

Regards,

Jeff