Posted on 03/27/2022 7:52:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ice sheets that covered North America tens of thousands of years ago may have prevented people by reaching the continent over land.Image credit: Anders Carlson
Thank goodness for global warming.
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I always like the word “may” in the title.
They walked north from the many several hundred thousand year old sites in South America.
I never supposed that humans came here by only one route, and I suspect, as more artifacts are uncovered (who says “global warming” is necessarily a bad thing?) we’ll learn our knowledge about human migration was/is totally lacking in imagination.
Jus’ sayin’
‘Face
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Glacial ice keeps beer cold longer and I don’t know why.
I have to believe that people were here long before 13,000 years ago. Them NOT being here makes little sense when you consider people were just about every other place.
I think people were here long ago.
That’s odd, others complain of the allegedly ubiquitous certainties.
There weren't that many people around. And most of them moved to follow food, whether on land or in the sea.
Like a cat covering its poo.
There were people all over the world. Certainly there were huge sea faring communities in India and China. There were certainly lots of folks in South America by then.
I imagine the records of people in North America were wiped out by the glaciers and subsequent deluge.
There is a bunch of stuff we don’t know.
Well duh! I personally figured this out long ago. Sea levels were way down during the “ice age” so most of the coastal settlements they made are now under water. You think they came across the “Bering Land Bridge”? OK, then what? The area between the Brooks Range and the Alaska Range was probably not glaciated but everything else was so you come across from Asia and face walls of ice as you move inland. Keeping to the coast is the only viable means of travel.
I imagine the records of people in North America were wiped out by the glaciers and subsequent deluge.
There is a bunch of stuff we don’t know.
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http://www.sci-news.com/featurednews/silurian-hypothesis-05921.html
I “May” have climbed Mt Everest…..twice.
If only there had been some man made climate change to melt those massive sheets of ice
Somewhere in the GGG archives should be an article about the narrow land bridge being the hunting grounds of Saber-tooth cats which decimated migrating populations for centuries.
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