[SunkenCiv]

[Photo courtesy Denver Museum of Nature and Science] A mammoth femur from Nebraska that is believed to have been broken by a hammerstone blow to mid-shaft. Steven R. Holen, curator of archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, said it is possible to tell that the bone was broken while it was still fresh because of the spiral breakage pattern.

[SunkenCiv]

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[pnh102]

Were those Native Americans killed by and robbed of their land by the ones who came over the Ice Age-era land bridge that existed between Alaska and Russkieland? :)

[xcamel]

It is the oldest Algonkin (Algonquin) verbal history story.

[La Lydia]

The Sorenson Molecular Geneaolgy Foundation published a study last year of Native American mtDNA sequences, which they traced to a single genetic tree with branches dated. Their results indicate that almost all modern Native Americans descended from six ancestral founding mothers. They used the built-in molecular clock of DNA to establish the time the first humans moved into the Western Hemisphere, finding a narrow window between 15-17,000 years ago.

And I always enjoy referring readers of these posts to David Macaulay's Motel of the Mysteries, in which future archaeologists excavate a 20th century motel and interpret what they find there. The bathroom was the inner sanctum of a religious structure and the toilet seat was a ceremonial chest-piece.

[JoeProBono]

[Ptarmigan]

It debunks the Bering Strait theory, which we were all taught in school.

[ElkGroveDan]

Native people insist that their ancestors have lived on this continent since time immemorial, and some mainstream scientists are beginning to weigh in on their side.

Just there were people here, doesn't mean they were ancestors of American Indians. The ancestors of today's Indians may have wiped out or assimilated older populations, the way the Europeans did. But of course, if that were true it wouldn't be PC, and it might take away their endless list of grievances in search of various reparations.

[investigateworld]

Uhmmmmm 33,000 years. That about corresponds to Dr. Louis B. Leaky’s estimate from the Calico Early Man dig in the Mojave Desert.

[wolfcreek]

I suspect there were some very liberal Indians who insisted on rewriting/removing proof of history, making scientific assumptions more difficult.

I prefer to believe the offspring of the aboriginal.