USA Archeology Vanity

29 February 2012

[zeestephen]

Stone Age European tools found at six locations on America's eastern coast - Tools date from 19,000 to 26,000 years ago - 10,000 years before the Siberian migration - Copyright issues - Link in Comments

[DManA]

There is a current theory gaining strength that they were wiped out, along with a lot of the mega fauna by an asteroid some 13,000 years ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702160950.htm

[BfloGuy]

It will eventually be determined that the early European settlers disappeared because of overwhelming pension costs and a below-replacement birthrate.

[albionin]

Well being from Europe they probably tried to implement socialism and they all starved to death. Still on the off chance that the Indians killed them all I think reparations are in order. Kiss those casino profits goodbye.

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[LadyDoc]

so the relatives of the Basques may have made it to the US 20 thousand years ago?

Yeah, but my ancestors were still bumming around in the steppes of the Ukraine back then...

[LadyDoc]

more seriously: This was discussed in a documentary a couple years ago. Apparently the knives found resembled the knives in French archeology sites, not those found in Siberia where the Native Americans came from.

There is a lot of rewriting of history with all the archeology going on...check out link (alas, audio only) and link

[zeestephen]

Thanks for the link.

I saw that program several years ago on my local PBS station.

It was my second exposure to the “Not Out of Siberia” theory.

I believe there are now close to a dozen sites that appear to pre-date 11,500 kya.

I was living in Oregon when the Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996.

Took almost 10 years in court before scientists were allowed to study it.

Numerous bones had gone “missing” by that time.

A complete politically correct travesty.

[exDemMom]

Articles like this almost make me wish I’d studied molecular archaeology, instead of toxicology. Medical research is interesting, but this kind of stuff is absolutely fascinating.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - so the indians wiped out the europeans before the europeans returned - - - “

Maybe, or maybe not. According to a Discovery (or Nature ?) TV documentary from last year, some Indian Tribes today in the NE USA have 25 % of European DNA.