[tomzz]

There don't seem to be any hominid remains in the Americas. Any idea as to why?

[blam]

"There don't seem to be any hominid remains in the Americas. Any idea as to why?"

There are thousands. I'm probably not understanding your question. Care to re-state it?

[SunkenCiv]

There don't seem to be any hominid remains in the Americas. Any idea as to why?

Just finding PreColumbian human remains is unusual, perhaps due to soil acidity, or because of the methods used (excarnation for example) by the survivors aren't conducive to preservation.

There's also no need (in the Clovis model, or its predecessor) for anyone to look for them since human ingress was purportedly so recent, leading to condemnation as fraud, incompetence, and whatnot anything found that is older. It took Dillehay et al 20 years to have a modest few thousand years of PreClovis time recognized, and that's not even proto-human hominids.

[Dimensio]

There don't seem to be any hominid remains in the Americas.

This statement is incorrect. There are millions of hominid remains in the Americas. Travel to a local cemetary; hominid remains are interred in grounds at such locations every day.

[Coyoteman]

There don't seem to be any hominid remains in the Americas. Any idea as to why?

As clarified by a subsequent post: "Hominids include neanderthals, homo erectus and the like."

The reason is they didn't make the trip. They were too early for the various means by which folks got here.

Folks have looked, but no luck. I know somebody who scoured the nether reaches of a very major university basement feeling brow ridges, looking for this very thing. Not there.