Cressman talks about that a lot. He depended on amateur collectors.
Marie Wormington, the dean of all the people on the study of ancient man, gives a lot of credit to amateurs. I have a piece that I sent to Marie Wormington for identification. It was the first Clovis point, you might say elephant hunter point that was ever found in this region and positively identified. Since then, I have accumulated pictures of maybe eight or 10 of them. So, we know there were elephant hunters around there. I’m waiting for somebody to find an elephant bone with one sticking in it.
They were dated at roughly the same time as the camel period?
The camel lasted a little longer around here than the elephant. That one point was dated at 10,000 years. I think that is a pretty good date, and it was with the camel bones. Arnold Shotwell, who was a paleontologist at the museum at the University of Oregon, and a master in the identification of animal bones, was a pretty good friend of mine. I was on the museum commission, and he was a great deal of help. Whenever we’d get a bone, we’d send it up to Arnold. He’d clean it up, date it and send it back to us. It was the only way that you could have a real scientific basis for knowing what these animals were around here. The county museum has a display of bones and stuff that I put together, and most of them are identified by Arnold Shotwell.
The Klamath County Museum?
Yes.
