Posted on 01/08/2009 7:46:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv
So someone must know --- Not often you see this in print. The oceans have risen so high since, that there are no more walkins, except from the north and south.
I wonder how long before NY is buried again under ice? A fitting end for liberal mecca.
Thanks blam.
LOL!
BTTT!
Link ? More info ?
Humans in the Philippines 67,000 years ago.
http://averyremoteperiodindeed.blogspot.com/2010/06/humans-in-philippines-67000-years-ago.html
In Brazil perhaps 60,000 years ago (hotly disputed)
http://www.athenapub.com/10pfurad.htm
In NA about 50,000 years ago.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
There are several twists and turns. The first is that this disputes how humans first came to the Americas over the Siberian bridge, resulting in the first major NA human population, the Clovis people. In retrospect, this has long been puzzling, because the Clovis seem to have just appeared all at once, leaving no trace either North or South of how they got there.
However, the third link, above, now points to humans in NA 50k years ago, instead of the 11.5k years ago of the Clovis.
So a very early population of humans in SA means that they would have had to migrate via a southern route. The motivation for them doing this is easy, as about 70,000 years ago there was a major ice age, which also rendered Africa very dry. South America was one of the more pleasant places to be on Earth around 60,000 years ago, in the last few thousand years of this ice age.
The occupation of the Philippines means that there were already some serious boats available. And navigating East in the Arctic ocean to South America might have been considerably easier skirting the expanded Antarctic ice sheets (just a guess).
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