Distant Past’s Artifacts, Relics, & Start of Human Caused Extinctions
        Stories and Histories of Our Place

What ruins might lie buried under the mud and ocean waters off the ocean’s coast or fresh waters of rivers and lakes deltas now buried by silt? One certainty, the Native Indigenous of the Far West cultures with 80 different languages respectively, lost their story tellers when they lost most of their populace.  And in Cascadia they were soon to lose their Camas & Wapato fields, already without the benefit of the rest of the America’s use of the 3 Sisters & Potato. This was to be followed by loss of hunting and fishing grounds, buffalo and salmon specifically.  Perhaps the Indigenous had other resources before Rising Shorelines, but that is an Underwater History that may never be known.  Artifacts are tough to come up because sea water destroys almost all materials.  Close on the ocean’s shore we have a trace of ancient Tsunamis.  For sure, there was global warming causing the oceans to rise from a far colder time 3,000 to 15,000 years ago when peoples immigrated across the Bering Sea’s land bridge.  Other challenges awaited, humans deliberate or inadvertent elimination of species: animals, plants, and even peoples.  Like annual and biannual plants and animal species, stories can become extinct without their being reborn/reseeded/retold. It takes but 1 year! Waves of water, disease, fire, and human created holocausts; all bury history.

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