[KamperKen]

"The writers of this article knows not of the discovery in the 80s in South Carolina that shoved man’s presence back in NA to 50KYA, nor the discovery in San Diego area in 1992 along State Route 54 that shoved it back to 130KYA.

I first read about the San Diego discovery of the mastodon bones in Graham Hancock's "America Before" when the book was released two years ago. In that same book it also mentioned that Polynesian DNA was found in tribes in the middle of the Amazon. People apparently crossed the oceans in extreme antiquity.

Robert Shoch in one of his books (I believe "The Voyage of the Pyramid Builders") related how a native Polynesian crossed 4,000 miles of open ocean in a canoe and arrived at a tiny atoll with no navigational aids at all; just the wind, currents, the sun, moon and stars. No crossing of a Bering Strait land bridge was necessary (and there are problems with that theory though most treat it as fact).

[abigkahuna]

In “science” there are accepted concensi (sic) that should never been disturbed or challenged. the YD event is one of those challenges. Another is that the Americas could never had been visited prior to Clovis. We do know that Austral-asian DNA is found in segments of the Native American population, as well as Polynesian. Now the question is how did they get there? They could have island and shoreline hopped up north and around to the Americas. They moight have travelled straigh across with boat and sail...frankly, we don’t really know. Neither did Hancock. But the conversation needs to take place and thrashed out.