"A mile a day? Really?"
Posted on 04/28/2017 2:04:28 AM PDT by Godebert
An Ice Age site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000-year-old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans. Analysis of these finds dramatically revises the timeline for when humans first reached North America, according to new research.
The fossil remains were discovered by Museum paleontologists during routine paleontological mitigation work at a freeway expansion project site managed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The bones, tusks, and molars, many of which are sharply broken, were found deeply buried alongside large stones that appeared to have been used as hammers and anvils, making this the oldest in situ, well-documented archaeological site in the Americas.
Possibly neanderthals and not later groups of “homo sapiens” arriving from Asia as the last ice age was ebbing.
Thanks. Checked it, looks good. Funny thing, comments on Amazon disclose that the same book was also reissued under the title “1493”....
I read one anthropologist who said that our ideas about a ‘boogie man’ living in the woods/jungle may have its origins in encounters with this fellow, Gigantopithecus.
Interesting. They (scientists) have also now concluded that the ‘Hobbit’ species discovered on Flores is likely that of an early h. Habilis or even an a. Africanus rather than a dwarf form of h. Erectus.
There are two books.
1491 and 1493, the sequel.
1491 is a good read.
You mean that what is today North America wasn’t a pristine land mass devoid of humans before the migration across the Bering land bridge?! Who woulda thunk...? /s
Fascinating subject and yet another shining example of the idiocy of the very concept of “settled science”. I’ve been doing independent research on this subject for years and what we call “Native Americans” today - and I are one, at least partially - were certainly not the first and only “original” inhabitants of North America.
Many American tribes, including the Paiute, Nez Perce, Navajo, Choctaw and many others, have legends of “white giants” that occupied North America long before their own people. Somehow, like any accounts of the “discovery” of America prior to 1492 (scientists finally - and reluctantly - agree that the Norse actually did come to America around 1,000 AD), such accounts are summarily discounted and all evidence that contradicts “settled science” seems to disappear from the public record.
Like our exploration and understanding of the oceans, our knowledge of the ancient history of the Americas is very, very limited.
Obviously, it was Aliens.
Yeah. It’s like watching a bunch of third-graders alter their story about why they were in the hall instead of the library.
“Really?, but the boy’s bathroom is the other way.”
“Um, a big kid told us there was a new one at the other end.”
Mr. Diamond made a pretty persuasive case if you substitute”influenced” for “caused.”
Yeah. It’s like watching a bunch of third-graders alter their story about why they were in the hall instead of the library.
“Really?, but the boy’s bathroom is the other way.”
“Um, a big kid told us there was a new one at the other end.”
Oops. A big kid told me it didn’t post the first time...
:-D
Excellent book.
Yup.
That was my original belief.
I’m inclined to take this with a grain of salt. So far they have some bones from 130,000 years ago which were broken in a certain way, which they say could only have been done by humans...but if there were a bunch of featherless bipeds running around North America at that time, surely more direct evidence will turn up...like bones with their DNA in it.
We went there once. the kids loved it!
My personal best at that distance + 2/10ths was 2:48:45. Never tried to walk it, though!
“So: why is an earlier human presence in the Americas a touchy subject? “
If whomever these earlier humans were are not the genetic ancestors of the current “native Americans” it would weaken their claim to being the original indigenous peoples of the New World. Or so I’ve heard.
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