Good Article, but registration required. FWIW, I used to live in Aiken, SC, not so far from Barnwell.
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There is every reason to believe, that the American continents were not discovered only once by a fairly large migration ove a period of probably a millennium, but again and again, by repeated visits and transplantations, from many sources. These people, like the first colonies of Europeans who arrived on these shores, may have encountered some overwhelming resistance to their presence, and died out, thousands of years before any other migrants arrived.
Could they have been seafaring folk, who somehow traveled here from Western Europe or Africa? There is some possibility that there may have been sufficient shoreline available, in a lowered ocean, for several parties in small boats to have pushed off in fairly short hops across the Atlantic. If I recall correctly, the Mediterranean was once a dry rift valley, and only filled when the sea waters in the Atlantic were high enough to come over the natural dam at Gibraltar. A vast global warming was ostensibly given as the reason for the sea waters rising some hundreds of feet or so. And also explain the fairly widespread legends about a huge flood overwhelming the known world of its day.
"The Day after Tomorrow" was really kind of limited in its scope.
I was reding this on the train this morning..it ws in the "Science" section of the NY Times..saw the SC byline, and figured they were taking one last shot at Strom Thurmond....
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this appears to be the oldest FR topic about Al Goodyear:
Site Sheds Light on Human Arrival
Source: AP via Yahoo
Published: May 26, 2001
Posted on 05/27/2001 06:25:12 PDT by sarcasm
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b11003848e1.htm