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I thought the land bridge was “settled science.”
Interesting theory, but there’s a whole lot of speculation padding it as well. I’ll reserve judgment until they find some ancient sake bottles or something.
So they came from someplace?..gee I thought they just sprang up out of the ground,you know, indigenous....how dare anyone else show up.
On a competing thread ... they came via the land bridge:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4348488/posts
Kon Tiki....
The one below makes more sense to me...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk5081
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4348488/posts
This makes sense
People would take “modern tech” (arrow heads at that time) with them as they travelled. The tech of arrow heads never matched the “settled science” of the land bridge.
This was a counter theory 40+ years ago. See it’s getting some traction
Now THIS premise is based on science. I don’t know if the paper references the DNA study I referred to in a prior comment in another thread, but a group of researchers compared North American indigenous DNA to those of regions of South America - iirc - and found NO LINK between them.
South America was populated by seafaring peoples from the western South Pacific.
We’ve always been at war with East Asia.
I don’t think it took a lot of ingenuity to figure out how to make arrow heads and spear tips, so to credit that to one tribe that spread across the globe is a bit of a stretch.
All practically next door to one another.
So, one ship, with good sails. That would do it.
I pretty much concluded this already.
So whitey didn’t “steal” America from the Indians we “stole” it from the Japs?
How does this explaine the footprints in the SW of human footprints alongside of dinosour footprints?
The relatively crude Guadalupe Bi-face tools, found along the Guadalupe River in southern Texas are possibly from the Archaic period, millennia before the Clovis tools were made. Here are some pictures: https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/theme/tools/images/Lithics-MB21.html
How does tool found on the east coast and central America imply they came from Japan? They went around the Cape? They just jumped over the mountains and skipped the west coast?
We don’t know that they’re the first.
Just that they are the first for whom we have evidence.
Any evidence of the ships they came on?