Everything about Fort Rock Cave totally explained
Fort Rock Cave is the site of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the
U.S. state of
Oregon, including 10,000-year-old
sandals (the oldest footwear ever discovered).
The
cave is located approximately 0.5 mi (0.8 km) west of
Fort Rock on the
Reub Long ranch in
Lake County.
Fort Rock Cave was declared a
National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Archeology
University of Oregon archaeologist
Luther Cressman's 1938 excavations at Fort Rock Cave placed human habitation in Oregon as early as 13,200 years ago. Cressman's team also recovered numerous examples of sandals woven from
sagebrush bark below a layer of Mazama Ash (deposited by the explosion forming
Crater Lake about 7600 years ago).
Radiocarbon dating of these sandals, now displayed at the
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History in
Eugene, has shown some to be over 10,000 years old. Several other prehistoric artifacts have been found at Fort Rock Cave, including basketry and stone and rock tools.
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