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" ...La Brea Woman is the oldest known Californian."

Not true. Arlington Springs Woman is the oldest Californian and also the oldest skeleton yet found in the Americas:

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

Luzia (above) is the second oldest American (Brazil)

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Then, there's these:

Vintage Skulls

"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old". They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."

"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."

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The article says that Luzia and African/Australoid features and conjectures that she and her people migrated down from the Bering Sea. Why not drifted across from Africa. Certainly there are currents that flow the right way. A storm could do it. Several groups of new world animals drifted over from Africa.

The little person from Mammoth Cave. Now they wonder if this girl/boy may have been older. Well, with the discovery of the Flores Island "Hobbits";, perhaps there is some validity to the legends of “little people”, leprechauns, etc. Scientists definitely need to be more open minded, and take a closer look at myths and legends for the truths they may reveal. Question. Is it possible to get DNA from the skeletons of creatures found in the La Brea pitz?