This Rockshelter in Washington Held 10,000-Year-Old Human Bones. Then the Army Corps Drowned It

#MarmesRockshelter #PreClovis #FirstAmericans February 1969. Water is pouring into a trench in eastern Washington. Not over the wall they built to protect it. Up through the ground. Forty-five thousand gallons a minute. Beneath that water are human bones around ten thousand years old, among the oldest ever found in the Americas. A United States senator fought for this place. A president signed off on the money to save it. And the Army Corps of Engineers drowned it anyway, under forty feet of reservoir. But here's what stopped me. This river system wasn't finished burying its past. And the next time, it wasn't water. Subscribe for more mind-blowing ancient history discoveries! 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@OriginsRevealedYT?sub_confirmation=1 Sources : Facts: Richard D. Daugherty began excavations in 1962. At an April 29, 1968 press conference researchers announced bones could be as old as 13,000 years; later analysis put the oldest human bones at approximately 10,000 years. A $750,000 emergency appropriation funded a cofferdam beginning November 1968; Senator Magnuson secured the funding from President Lyndon Johnson. It failed because water poured in at 45,000 gallons a minute through underlying gravel when the floodgates closed in February 1969. The site disappeared beneath 40 feet of water in February 1969.