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I think this too will eventually be revealed to be too recent a timeline. I believe that polynesia was the primary route for Ice Age peoples (11k to 17k ya) to reach South America. The “Bering Land Bridge” theory has far too many huge holes in it; and I consider it ridiculous on its face.

"I think this too will eventually be revealed to be too recent a timeline. I believe that polynesia was the primary route for Ice Age peoples (11k to 17k ya) to reach South America. The “Bering Land Bridge” theory has far too many huge holes in it; and I consider it ridiculous on its face. "

I can support both ideas. The kelp highway goes all the way from Japan to the tip of South America, easy pickings.

POLYNESIA
THE TRAIL OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS

I don't doubt that people were wandering around Beringia when it wasn't covered with water, but I don't think the Americas were isolated either. And I doubt that there was any impediment to the settlement of the Pacific, apart from the recency (and/or lack of habitibility) of some of the landmasses, most of which are small.

Madagascar was colonized from Indonesia perhaps 2000 years ago, which is pretty wild because there was plenty of traffic on the Indian Ocean and even circumnavigation of Africa in ancient times, even prehistoric times in the former case.

Malagasy, the language of Madagascar · Malagasy is the language of Madagascar. Spoken by around 18 million Malagasy people (Malagasy is both the name of the language and the inhabitants of Madagascar), Malagasy has its origins in Indonesia and "most closely resembles Ma'anyan, a Malayo-Polynesian tongue spoken today in the Barito Valley of southern Borneo" (Tyson 2000). According to (Tyson 2000), around "93 percent of the basic vocabulary is Malayo-Polynesian in origin" while "most of the words relating to animal husbandry" are of Bantu (African) origin.

There's no known evidence of earlier habitation. Of course, there's also this little doo-dad:

Maybe no one has dug deep enough. There are often political reasons for failure to dig -- perhaps particularly on island nations such as Madagascar, Japan, and even Britain.

The people found in Terra del Fuego, it has just been recently determined, are genetically related to Australian aborigines.

There are archaeological sites being discovered in the Western Hemisphere that predate the Bering Land Bridge migrants, and the evidence indicates that the newcomers from Siberia slaughtered the already existing residents, with only the people in Terra del Fuego surviving into the 19th century.

The Bering land bridge hypothesis is junk science. Indian anthropologist, Vine Deloria, in his “Red Earth, White Lies” pretty much demolishes the Bering Straight hypothesis as well as North American megafauna extinction being due to human predation/hunting.

I want to know how Thor Heyerdahl’s ideas about Pacific island migrations hold up to this DNA work.