Archeological artifacts and reports gave evidence that there was a presence of the Native American tribe living in what is now called the Chumash Native Americans lands dated back to at least 11, 000 years ago. The sites of the Millington Horizon gave proof that the people who existed around 7000 cal BC to 4500 Cals BC applied the processing of seeds with metates and Manos. This just means that those people had started depending on plants. Throughout that time as well, they had known how to catch fish by using a bi-pointed bone objects and line.

Chumash Native Americans: Olivellabiplicata

Even without the use of the advanced technology the people had now, the Chumash Native Americans had used their brains really well. They also started to recognize the significance of shellfish in their lives and made beads from shells of what is now called a marine olive snail or is scientifically named as Olivellabiplicata. The Chumash Native Americans can sometimes be referred to as “bead maker”.

Chumash Tribe Food

In the centuries of the first millennium AD, droughts were very rare to happen. One can only count the number of times where the ancient people had experienced scarcity. However, an explosion of the total number of population occurred with the coming of the medieval warm period. Natural emergence of water in the coast was built up. This caused the marine resources to relatively increase their subsistence. That is why, most of the time, the Chumash people depended on the food they get in the coastal water.

There were some historians, scholars, and researchers who believed that there was some kind of interaction that happened between the Chumash and the Polynesians between AD 400 and 800, which was 1, 000 years before Christopher Columbus reached the land of America. They were certain that the Polynesians went to see the Chumash in their homeland or it may happen the other way around. Conversely, most of the archeologists especially those who studied the Chumash culture did not accept the hypothesis and theories that some of the researchers claimed. Though there were others who were somewhat considered the idea a reasonable one.

Chumash Language

Since the researchers were strongly sure about their theory, they presented proofs to the archeologists. They said that the sewn-plank canoe that the Chumash had created was used to travel throughout the Polynesian Islands that is unknown to most people in the North America except to the two tribes. They also argued about the comparative language of the two tribes.

The researchers were confident that the Chumash word for the sewn-plank canoe is Tomolo’o which was derived from Kumula’au which was a Polynesian word for a redwood log that was used for their construction. But still, the language comparison was not entirely approved by all of them. It was just tentative. The archeologists reasoned out that the history and development of the Chumash plank canoe are greatly presented inside their archeological records that were based on the past centuries.

It was not yet reported or stated to any other informational archives about the argument between the researchers and archeologists of the Chumash tribe.

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