REF: The Herald, The Northwest section p. 3B Fri Oct 9, 1998 entitled Remains believed to be oldest home site (Associated Press article). QUOTED BEND, Ore - A hearth and the remains of five posts unearthed in central Oregon date back nearly 10,000 Oregon date back nearly 10,000 years and are believed to be part of the oldest home site ever found in western North America (sic.-CC.) University of Oregon researchers said Thursday that the ancient home site was a tepee-like structure covered with bundles of where hunter-gatherers lived while stalking bison and elk. It is more than 4,000 years older than home sites previously found, predating the Mount Mazama eruption that created Crater Lake and covered the Northwest and parts of the Great Plains with a layer of ash. "We found below the Mazama ash a hearth 150 centimeters below the surface. The radio-carbon date came back 10,000 years," archaeologist Dennis Jenkins said. "Around that hearth we found five posts that had been stuck in the ground. These are the remains of a burned structure, a superstructure, probably lodgepole pine that would have been tied in the middle, something like a tepee." Jenkins said the structure, near Paulina Lake about 20 miles south of Bend, was first discovered in 1992 but not publicized until researchers were sure. It is the oldest such structure found in the Great Basin, which covers a large portion of Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho, eastern Oregon and eastern California, on the eastern slopes of the Sierras. "We've found pit houses with dates of about 5,000 to 5,500 years old. Those are pretty much the earliest that I've been aware of," Jenkins said. The people who lived at Newberry Crater collected hazelnuts, blackberries and shokecherries. Remnants of these foods were found in their hearth. Crude tools made of obsidian were also found. The environment at the time, before a depp layer of Mazama ash made the soil coarse, was lush. There were more grasses and plants to collect. The site, at 6,300 feet elevation, was not used in the winter, Jenkins daid, noting that snow already has begun falling. The site is 25 miles from Fort Rock Cave, where the late Luther Cressman discovered about 70 pairs of sandals, made of sagebrush bark and dating to the same period as the Paulina Lake site. The Fort Rock discovery, in 1938, altered anthropologists" theories about how long people had lived in the Northwest. END OF QUOTED ARTICLE from The Herald. & & & 30 & & & -& this makes me wonder what "they" would find if they were to, someday, do some digging at the site of SNOHOMISH CEMETERY. Laughable as it may seem to some in comparison with the article above, but I believe, seriously, that that site is not "empty" or void of indicators of its PAST. Only one site of remains were found at the request of the City of Snohomish to try an archeological dig, to prove their point that there were no remains in that Cemetery, but "accidently" leg bones were found, but the rest of that skeletal remains were not uncovered. What if it were Indian, or today's parlance, Native Amer. That could have caused quite an eruption and there would have been ash all over the place. Then there is the retort - Well, if we find anything more in the future, we will relocate and rebury it, syndrome; attitude. SNOHOMISH CEMETERY w a s a Cemetery, i s a Cemetery, and s h o u l d c o n t i n u e t o b e t h e SNOHOMISH CEMETERY despite THOSE WHO WOULD KILL IT. It was, is, and should remains the earliest PIONEER CAUCASIAN/INDIAN aka "Native American" CEMETERY THAT IT IS - named formally SNOHOMISH CEMETERY 1875/76 when it consisted of 3 acres +- . The Hwy 2, now called 2nd Street, cut of 1947 was done via legal procedure of the time. Since that time, what has been done LEGALLY to that site? WHO was legally responsible for Snohomish Cemetery's upkeep, care. maintenance. WHO was responsible for the records of the Cemetery? WHERE are those RECORDS? If there are NO REMAINS in Snohomish Cemetery, where is the PROOF of that sort of mentality? Are there NO RECORDS? Are NO RECORDINGS - nothing written anywhere, anytime in ref to SNOHOMISH CEMETERY? It all just DISAPPEARED? What does GENEALOGY have to say about such thinking? Do records just simply disappear from the face of the Earth into oblivion, never to make an "appearance". I think N O T in this instance. Preservation of old houses of "historic value" is one thing; historic preservation of an HISTORIC Cemetery in Snohomish Cemetery in the City of Snohomish, Washington is of equal and GREATER VALUE by far to the Community, and it TRUE HISTORY! Do I make my point! Carroll of Snohomish & & & 30 & & & ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]