[NukeMan]

Looks like something you'd like to read....

[ElkGroveDan]

Using radiocarbon dating, scientists found that the Ushki site, the remains of a community of hunters clustered around Ushki Lake in northeastern Russia, appears to be only about 13,000 years old, 4,000 years younger than originally thought.

OK so THIS site isn't old enough. Nothing in this discovery says they DIDN'T cross there 4,000 years earlier. All it shows is that this site is irrelevant to the debate.

[Dog Gone]

I don't get it. Just because the Siberian settlement wasn't the direct source of the human migration during the land bridge doesn't prove that the land bridge wasn't used by someone else.

[blam]

Calico: A 200,000 year old site in the Americas?

[Redcloak]

"We have to think bigger now and start thinking outside the box."

Maybe they could paddle out of that box...

[HamiltonJay]

Given the fact the land bridge is mostly underwater, finding out one site is younger than believed doesn't rule out its existence or use... the "land bridge" was huge... not saying they didn't come in boats... but this hardly discredits the land bridge theory in and of itself.

[blam]

'Arlington Springs Woman', 13,000 Years Old Human Skeleton, California Island

[Aric2000]

Ping!!

[ml/nj]

I haven't read it yet, but Red Earth, White Lies is supposed to have a good refutation of the Bering Land Bridge theory.

ML/NJ

[skeeter]

Exactly what are they carbon dating? Pieces of wood?

[Sloth]

...said Michael Waters, co-author of the research that appeared last week in the journal Science. "We have to think bigger now and start thinking outside the box."

Start with different cliches.

[Sam Cree]

bump

[Physicist]

University of Kansas anthropological geneticist Michael Crawford said early humans probably could not have crossed the land bridge and traveled to New Mexico in 400 years. Reaching South America by foot within 1,000 years was even less likely.

I don't see this at all. That's a diffusion rate of around 10 miles per year. Even non-nomadic people can achieve that.

[Question_Assumptions]

But some archaeologists argue that due to the nomadic characteristics of America's first settlers, the seemingly difficult feat of traversing both North and South America in 1,000 years is not

They would not only have had to be very nomadic but able to adapt to the multitude of changing climates (each containing a different mix of new plant and animal life) as they travelled from North to South America. That is a pretty tall order.

[B Knotts]

making it highly unlikely that people could have traversed the thousands of miles from Siberia in such a short period

Maybe they took I-5.

[genefromjersey]

Suggest to these same scientists the "Native Americans" might have started from here ,and migrated to Asia,and you will undoubtedly be treated to a long, cool silence...

[aBootes]

I guess I don't understand why everyone seems so partial to the land bridge theories. If the article is correct, there is no evidence to support the idea that the folks who settled Clovis came from Asia on land. While there may be other undiscovered sites on the Asian side, who cares? The land bridge theory has been cracking and flaking for awhile. Let it go.

[BluH2o]

DNA testing of native Americans should offer clues to their ancestory ... isn't this avenue being explored?

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