Posted on 07/09/2021 9:10:43 AM PDT by blam
Certainly, the most likely time and mode of migrations to the Americas is not the simple tale that the text books tell us. Multiple migrations, using boat and feet, are the most likely. However, since the Bering land bridge was not open 30K YA, we can eliminate that option. If migrations occurred 30K years ago, they probably came by boat, and probably using both Atlantic and Pacific/Bering Sea. I think that we have the evidence in hand, but as always, scientific acceptance lags the discoveries.
Yep, both articles are very good and have stood the test of time. They both helped kill the Clovis First notion.
There were probably different migrations into different areas via different methods..
The bones could have been from a 30,000 year old rabbit...................
Of course there is evidence of ancient Europeans in the Americas, and it isn’t even surprising that they got here.
The DNA studies have been almost entirely of living populations and show multiple waves of settlement from Asia, which matches with the linguistic differences.
The main problem with figuring out origins for various sites (there’s been more kerfluffle about the Serpent Mound just recently) is that, just as in every other corner of the Earth, no one group has existed there for the duration.
So far they haven’t found any. Lots potential sites, lots of places to look.
I’ve not seen it. All I’ve seen is speculation about the Solutreans.
There have been DNA studies of ancient remains. The oldest include corprolites found in Paisley Caves is dated to 11 kya. The oldest DNA from burials include Kennewick (8.5 kya) and Anzick-1 (12 kya). These all have their closest affinity to present day Native Americans.
There are never enough ancient remains but the east is tougher because remains are less likely to be preserved. The Windover burials in Florida dated to 8-7 kya are not different genetically than the others.
Don’t know about the Serpent Mound. Are they saying it wasn’t created by the Adena culture again?
As they say “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence”. I say it isn’t evidence of anything but it’s always fun to look.
Exactly !
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