Indian Sands (Brookings, Oregon)

Indian Sands
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Address restricted[1]
Nearest city	Brookings, Oregon
NRHP Reference #	92000668
Added to NRHP	June 4, 1992

Indian Sands near Brookings, Oregon is an archaeological site that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.^[2]

Archaeological finds

In 2002, a team of researchers from Oregon State University found evidence of human presence on the southern Oregon coast at the Indian Sands area of Boardman State Park dating more than 10,000 years ago — more than 2,000 years older than previously known archaeological sites on Oregon's coast. Carbon dating of artifacts (similar to ones found on the Alaskan and British Columbia coasts) suggested an origin approximately 12,000 years ago.^[3][4][5]

See also

• Carpenterville, Oregon -- a community near Brookings, Oregon

References

1. Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of sensitive archaeological sites in many instances. The main reasons for such restrictions include the potential for looting, vandalism, or trampling. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin (29), National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.
2. Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
3. "Ancient site of human activity found on Oregon coast". Oregon State University. 6 November 2002.
4. Loren G. Davis (3 March 2006). "Geoarchaeological insights from Indian Sands, a Late Pleistocene site on the southern northwest coast, USA". Geoarchaeology (Volume 21, Issue 4, pages 351–361, April 2006).
5. Loren G. Davis (2008), New Support for a Late-Pleistocene Coastal Occupation at the Indian Sands Site, Oregon (PDF), Archaeology:North America (Vol. 25, p. 74-76, 2008)