Posted on 05/31/2009 12:09:51 AM PDT by BGHater
Migrating peoples were sophisticated in sea harvesting, Jon Erlandson says
The Pacific Coast of the Americas was settled starting about 15,000 years ago during the last glacial retreat by seafaring peoples following a "kelp highway" rich in marine resources, a noted professor of anthropology theorized Wednesday.
Jon Erlandson, director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, suggested that especially productive "sweet spots," such as the estuaries of B.C.'s Fraser and Stikine rivers, served as corridors by which people settled the Interior of the province.
Erlandson said in an interview these migrating peoples were already sophisticated in harvesting from the sea and would have worked their way down the coast in search of new sites.
"I think as much as anything it was an exploratory urge," he said at an international conference on the history of marine mammals at the University of B.C. "Populations were gradually growing and people kept moving. What's around the next bend? If there were no people there, it must have been a really powerful draw to keep exploring."
The kelp highway theory runs up against the long-held belief that the first humans entered the Americas on a land bridge that spanned the Bering Strait.
Erlandson said the kelp highway represented a diverse ecosystem and would have extended from what is today Japan past Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska's Aleutian Islands all the way down the west coast of North America to Mexico's Baja peninsula and then continuing again in the waters off Peru, Ecuador, and Chile in South America.
"These kelp forests would have provided a migration corridor near shore with no major barriers," he said. "It would have been a very similar ecological zone to follow and a rich one."
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Kelp theory in the news ping.
Mmmm...kelp.
The motto back then was “I’d walk a mile for a kelp-burger.”
The kelp highway runs all the way from Japan to the tip of South America.
That would explain why the oldest skeletons in the Americas don't resemble the American Indians:
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I kelp believe ocean this in the news again.
Living easy
Living free
An Amerind on a one way ride
Ask another
Leave me be
Taking everything in my stride
Don’t need reason
Don’t need rhyme
Ain’t nothin’ I would rather do
Going down
Party time
My tribe is gonna be there too, eh
I’m on a highway of kelp
On the highway of kelp
Highway of kelp
I’m on the highway of kelp
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No Speed limit
Nobody’s gonna slow me down
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Gonna spin it
Nobody’s gonna mess me ‘round
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Payin’ my dues
Stayin’ in a tribal band
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Look at me
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Highway of kelp
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M-on the highway to kelp
LOL!
Take a chance, while you still have a choice.
You got to admit it goes good with Unagi.
Good one!
Question:
Carefree Kelp Highway: Is it gum, an ice cream additive, a road surfacing product or a song?
One of those prehistoric fishermen fell out of the boat, but then he was a kelped man.
He didn’t fall, he was pushed by someone who supposedly had evolved to the point of having lungs. Even so, he was wearing a gold...
gill Tee
(TRIPLE entendre...)
Gilt Tee
Gill Tee
Guilty.
Now I must slink off and do penance... ;^)
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