‘Must’ve come from the south, rather than over the Bering land bridge.’
The only way this could have happened would have been if Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki theory was correct, that the first humans in the Americas migrated across the Pacific on large sail-powered rafts. I don’t buy it. I would believe the ice boats across the Atlantic theory before I would believe it.
No guys, you’re missing the point. What happenned — to an absolute metaphysical certitude — was this:
During the ICE Age, tens of thousands of humans from SIBERIA followed hordes of mammoths (millions of which were hunted to extinction by those same thousands of people) across a land bridge in the Bering Strait that was exposed by the growth of MASSIVE GLACIATION into NORTHERN ALASKA (again, ... in the ICE Age). Then, all of the MAMMOTHS walked across the TOPS OF GLACIERS, or the MOUNTAINTOPS of the tallest Mts in North America for miles and miles to Northern California. The mammoths were followed by thousand of people who also walked over a THOUSAND MILES on MOUNTAINTOPS and GLACIERS.
When these people reached what are now the Lower 48, they were so ecstatic that they immediately (in their thousands) marched about TEN THOUSAND MILES straight down to Tierra del Fuego.
Once there, they did a quick about-face and walked roughly FIVE THOUSAND MILES back north to Texas, ... where they finally got tired and settled down.
These ICE AGE humans walked so fast that they broke the barrier of the Speed of Light and travelled BACKWARDS IN TIME by about FIVE THOUSAND YEARS during their trek.
Of course, this was hungry work. So, while on their travels, these few THOUSANDS of ICE AGE humans KILLED and ATE MILLIONS of mammoths, giant sloths, giant beavers, giant armadillos, smilodons, and a number of other ENTIRE SPECIES of megafauna.
That, as best as I can figure it, is the “SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS” on the matter.
Hope that helps!
No need for blue-water sailing for Moog and Oog...all that these early invaders needed to do was follow the coastline in boats/rafts first going north along the east coast of Asia, then east along the area of the Bering Strait (with or w/o the land bridge) and then south down the west coast of North America.