Posted on 01/09/2009 1:40:09 PM PST by decimon
Disney World.
Deliverance ping.
Now that's just Mickey Mouse.
The other side.
The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas.
Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans.
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Is this Jeopardy? Okay. "Why did the Beringians cross the continent?"
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*Skeletal remains of 169 people, split almost evenly between males and females, ranging from 6 to 70 years old. About 75 of the skeletons were relatively intact.
*90 intact human brains that include the oldest DNA samples in the World.
*Artifacts of wood, bone, and seed that were made into jewelry and tools, providing insight into the ancient peoples' lives.
*Tests showed the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago. The youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago. "To put this into context," Doran said, "these people had already been dead for 3,000 or 4,000 years before the first stones were laid for the Egyptian pyramids!"
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Illinois.
The reply to the article points to found artifacts from an earlier population. A population of...try not to get excited...neanderthals. ;-)
Dang... It only took 2 posts for you to say what I was going to say. We must be in some kind of a rut.
Well in that case I'm sharing the rut with the best class of rutster. ;)
Yes...I like Neanderthals.
I also like the idea that it was a combination of the big brained Neanderthals and the gracile body of the 'Modern' Humans that produced us.
“Once Humans Crossed the Bering Land Bridge to America, Where Did They Go?”
HOOters, for some hot wings.
To Kalifornia to complain about Global Cooling
And then there was the African migration with the one guy shouting “Can I take it to the bridge?”
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