Posted on 07/27/2008 10:12:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
[isn't this Gannett?]
Ancient Stone Tools Found In South Carolina (Topper)
Atlanta Journal Consitiution | 6-17-2008 | LIZ MITCHELL
Posted on 06/19/2008 10:25:55 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033416/posts
Research Casts New Light On History Of North America
Newswise | 7-1-2008 | Valparaiso University
Posted on 07/01/2008 10:26:26 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039278/posts
Oregon Discovery Challenges Beliefs About First Humans
PBS | 7-1-2008 | Lee Hochberg
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:20:04 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039558/posts
Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions About First Americans
Scientific American | 7-3-2008 | Elizabeth Lunday
Posted on 07/03/2008 4:12:23 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040478/posts
First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia....
Science Daily | 7-1-08
Posted on 07/03/2008 4:55:14 AM PDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040167/posts
First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe,
Not From Asia Over Bering Strait
ScienceDaily | July 17, 2008
Posted on 07/16/2008 8:02:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046692/posts
Maize (Corn) May Have Been Domesticated In Mexico As Early As 10,000 Years Ago
Science Daily | 6-27-2008 | American Society of Plant Biologists
Posted on 06/29/2008 2:03:58 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038261/posts
Evidence Of Ancient Farming Found (Canada)
BC Local News | 6-20-2008 | Jeff Nagel
Posted on 06/23/2008 1:30:34 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035236/posts
The Great Human Migration
Smithsonian Magazine | July 2008 | Guy Gugliotta
Posted on 06/25/2008 5:04:06 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036456/posts
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Follow the DNA.
... they walked??
Practice, practice, practice...;-)
Reporter: “John, how do you find America?”
Lennon: “Turn left at Greenland”.
Many theories. Mine: “Whatever floats.” I believe the wretched refuse of distant teeming shores occasionally had the phenomenal luck to wash up here on the way to elsewhere. There was a first time for this; and there was Columbus; and a lucky few in between.
Moreover, there’s a lot of easy food on a beach. If I were an ancient man that’s where I’d hang out.
Perhaps they were here all along?
Native history makes no indication to the contrary.
Or sailed/paddled.
The interesting point about this theory is that all archeological evidence is under perhaps a couple hundred feet of water.
I just love a theory that can’t be disproven.
DNA and bone studies suggest that there were more than one wave from Siberia. Even Europe and possibly Africa. Clearly ancient man followed the shore and glacier edge and probably even learned to sail on the open sea.
I'd be interested to know how they got 14,300 years as the age given the skepticism about the other 14,500 year measure.
The radiocarbon date came from the bits of charmin embedded in the coprolite.
Well, it isn’t a Gannett source after all (I was thinkin’ USA Today), so here’s an excerpt:
“After years of spirited debate over how and when people first reached the Americas, scientists finally seem poised to reach agreement. The emerging consensus: In contrast to what was long held as conventional wisdom, it now seems likely that the first Americans did not wait for ice sheets covering Canada to melt some 13,000 years ago, which would have allowed them to traipse south over solid ground. Instead, early nomads might well have traveled by boat or at least along the coast from Siberia to North America, perhaps navigating arctic waters near today’s Bering Strait. The telltale evidence: ancient DNA from those early people that’s been coaxed, by powerful analytical technology, into revealing its secret.”
Thanks. For the laugh.
Varied. One set of ancestors left England because their children kept dying in infancy. Another left because they were basically hired to settle territory granted to a “Sir”. Some came over in a wave of emigration from places like Scotland, Ireland, and Germany, in the 18th century. A mess of them came from New England, with just a few coming from New Amsterdam. :’) My most recent immigrant ancestors left Germany because of the short-lived war turmoil under Bismarck. Basically, all of them saw the opportunities offered as better than what they could look forward to, and saw little difference in the risks.
:’) The language development suggests a wide range of dates (from 35,000 years ago to present) for multiple waves of settlement, just like every other place on Earth. Fossil remains of hominids haven’t been found in the Americas, but literally no one is looking.
In addition, the continental shelf of all the continents has been exposed to various degrees most of the past 2 million years or so (during glaciations), and it was ice-free and warmer down there. Most of our ancestry came from down there, which is probably one reason there’s been much more interest in research of the submerged areas, during recent decades.
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