Ancient landslide created a 14-mile lake on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park

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Based on the human-made projectile points found at the Carbella site, the ancient campground is estimated to date to between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago.

More recent excavations in 2005 and 2008 of a campsite near Malin Creek, near the mouth of the Black Canyon of the Yellowstone, found lake sediments overlaying the site that dated to about 10,280 years ago.

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It’s hard to confirm whether Paleo-Indians may have witnessed the Lamar lake flood. The dating of an ancient burial site in the nearby Shields Valley, where artifacts and the remains of two children were uncovered in 1968, has produced a timeframe of human habitation of the area 12,750 to 12,900 years ago.