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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #6349 Human Remains
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In  1959,  the  partial  skeletal  remains  of  an  ancient  woman  estimated  to  be  10,000  years  old  were  unearthed  in  Arlington  Springs  on  Santa  Rosa  Island,  one  of  the  eight  Channel  Islands  off  the  southern  California  coast.  They  were  discovered  by  Phil  C.  Orr,  curator  of  anthropology  and  natural  history  at  the  Santa  Barbara  Museum  of  Natural  History.  The  remains  of  the  so-called  Arlington  Springs  woman  were  recently  reanalyzed  by  the    radiocarbon  dating  techniques  and  were  found  to  be  approximately  13,000  years  old.  The  new  date  makes  her  remains  older  than  any  other  known  human  skeleton  found  so  far  in  North  America.
The  discovery    the  popular  belief  that  the  first  colonists  to  North  America  arrived  at  the  end  of  the  last  ice  age  about  11,500  years  ago  by    a  Bering  land  bridge  that  connected  Siberia  to  Alaska  and  northwestern  Canada.  The  earlier  date  and  the  location  of  the  womans  remains  on  the  island  adds  weight  to  an  alternative  theory  that  some  early  settlers    have  constructed  boats  and  migrated  from  Asia  by  sailing  down  the  Pacific  coast.

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