[wildcard_redneck]

"...we’re currently living exactly 1,000 years after human migration is first known to have encircled the entire planet."

The author is an idiot. Native Americans of both North and South America have been there for at least 40,000 years, if not nearly 100,000 years.

[RightOnTheBorder]

I think he is technically right. The globe wasn’t circled till someone crossed the Atlantic.

[Levy78]

100k is a stretch I think but 40-50k is a certainty at this point, but further finding could extend that and probably will.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Native Americans of both North and South America have been there for at least 40,000 years, if not nearly 100,000 years.

I think the distinction that the author is trying to make is that Native Americans migrated from the West (Asia by way of Siberia) and the Vikings came from the East (Scandinavia). When the Vikings got here it was the first time that humans had encircled the globe.

[Chuckster]

The author is an idiot. Native Americans of both North and South America have been there for at least 40,000 years, if not nearly 100,000 years.

I suppose it's too much to expect people to actually read the article before commenting. But that's Free Republic for you. Everyone has an opinion whether they know the subject or not.

[ought-six]

“The author is an idiot. Native Americans of both North and South America have been there for at least 40,000 years, if not nearly 100,000 years.”

You mean immigrants from Asia.

[SuzyQue]

I don’t think there is evidence showing habitation in the NE as long ago as 40-50k years, and there were a number of migrations. Successive new groups would move in and assimilate, supplant or co-exist with the previous group. There wasn’t just one group in the same way there isn’t such a thing as “Native American culture”. Whole lotta difference peoples.