Posted on 05/13/2016 1:32:25 PM PDT by rdl6989
The discovery of stone tools found in a Florida river show that humans settled the southeastern United States far earlier than previously believed—perhaps by as much as 1,500 years, according to a team of scientists that includes a University of Michigan paleontologist.
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I had a Hopi/Paiute man tell me the Hopi entered in Florida, not the bering straight.
I'm not sure why this implies "many people roaming the continent." Maybe they were mostly visitors. See America B.C. (Here B.C. means Before Columbus) by Barry Fell.
ML/NJ
Where’d they get the stone for the stone tools? Isn’t Florida mostly sand, clay and shell? Nearest flint deposits must be hundreds of miles away.
And I ate the dingo...guess that makes me a baby daddy...or sumpin.
-——Isn’t Florida mostly sand, clay and shell? Nearest flint deposits must be hundreds of miles away.——
LOL....
Florida has rocks....also...
Chert...look it up...
Imported it, man. It’s bidness, doncha know?
Maybe they traded for the stone.
***the Hopi entered in Florida,***
What? I heard they crawled out of a hole in the Grand Canyon!
So the legends say.
Funny. The neighboring Apache Tribe to the Hopi have a language almost identical to the tribes in Alaska.
Check out the map at this link of the Athabaskan language
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabaskan_languages
Thanks for the link.
The Athabascan speakers moved south from the boreal forest less than one thousand years ago, supposedly.
The first Canadian snowbirds played rough.
I thought that they might have come by way of Alaska. Interesting that they might have come from the Atlantic and only visiting.
The way I understand it, the Navajo (related group) also speak the language and the tribes north actually migrated from the south in relatively recent times.
The Zuni are very, very, very interesting to me. I personally believe they came from Japan originally. Too many linguistic coincidences in my opinion, although I’m certainly not an expert or even a serious amateur on the matter.
Clovis first - RIP.
Illegal aliens.
Souix exposed bodies on scaffolds, dome tribes buried the bodies, then exhumed the bones and deposited them in mass burial pits. In that culture, hunter gatherer, the population must have been quite small until cultivation of maize, beans and squash.
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