Hidden away in an obscure notice in a federal register is a throwaway line that could rewrite human history.

It states that San José State University holds human remains of an Ice Age individual from Maui, Hawaii, in its research collection.

If true, it’s nothing short of sensational — because Hawaii is generally thought to have been peopled between 800 and 1000 AD.

The Ice Age, or Pleistocene epoch, ended around 12,000 years ago, making the SJSU remains at least 10,000 years older than the earliest known human presence in Hawaii.

Paleoindians, the oldest human remains in the Americas, have been discovered in the continental US dating as old as 12,000 years ago — but fewer than two dozen of them have ever been found here, including only three Ice Age individuals.

Thus, to find any Paleoindian in Hawaii is groundbreaking, but to find one from the Ice Age is astounding.

Anthropologists all around the world should be fired up by this sensational discovery, clamoring to visit SJSU to get a look at these remains and bombarding the university with questions.

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