[gleeaikin]

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?

[blam]

"Question. Is it possible to get DNA from the skeletons of creatures found in the La Brea pitz?"

I would expect so.