How old is the oldest site on Fort Drum?
The oldest site on Fort Drum we have discovered is 10800 BP. This site rests on a relic shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois. Diagnostic artifacts from this site include a fluted point, an abrading stone, primary and secondary chert flakes and a Morehouse Onondaga triangular end scraper. Note that this is the oldest site we know of now. We do not really know when the first people came to the Americas. Until recently, it had been commonly believed by many North American archeologists that people could not have arrived via the Bering Straits before about 12,000 years ago, when the great ice-age glaciers retreated. Current discovery sites in North America are dating back more than 12,000 years ago; archaeologists suspect that people may have lived in the New World much earlier.
