Posted on 12/24/2016 9:29:43 AM PST by BenLurkin
University of Copenhagen researchers Eske Willerslev, Mikkel Pedersen, and their colleagues found that this harsh route only became viable for human migration 12,600 years agowhen the first plants and animals showed up in the region. Meanwhile, archaeologists have ample evidence that people were living in the Americas long before then.
We know conclusively that human groups were in the interior before that dateperhaps as early as 15,000 calibrated radiocarbon years before presentso it is highly unlikely that they came south through the corridor, said Michael OBrien, an anthropologist and current academic vice president of Texas A&M UniversitySan Antonio, who wasnt involved in the study. A more likely scenario is that they came south along the Pacific coast.
For the study, Pedersen and colleagues drilled sediment cores from beneath the frozen surface of two lakes in western Canada: Charlie Lake and Spring Lake. These were among the last areas to lose their ice cover when the two huge ice sheets that blanketed the region (the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets) split during the end of the last glacial maximum, around 15,000 years ago. The retreating ice opened up a path some 1500 kilometers long into the interior of North America.
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The results of the study suggest the route was only usable between 12,600 and 10,000 years ago. This narrow window is too late to match with the once-prevailing Clovis First hypothesis...
Recently, several before-Clovis sites have been discovered in the Americas. Fossilized feces more than 14,000 years old have been found in Oregons Paisley Caves. Stone tools alongside mastodon bones in Florida were recently found to be 14,550 years old. And much further away from northwestern Canada, in southern Chile, humans inhabited Monte Verde at least 14,000 years ago (and possibly even earlier).
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There apparently was more than one wave of settlers.
Concorde?
Has anyone asked Brian Williams? I’m sure he was there when they arrived.
So you’re telling me that the frozen human dookie from 14,000 years ago are the missing pieces to the puzzle?
Sakes alive.
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brothers name was Joktan.
Genesis 10:25
Great name for a rock band.
Stone tools alongside mastodon bones
Close runner up.
Imo, the usual suspects wont have a real clue until underwater archeology starts working the old ice age coastlines approx 2-300 feet below current sea levels.
“Fossilized feces “
Ossified offals?
Try to imagine your local environs 14,000 years ago.
Where I live, life would have been fat and relatively easy.
But places like Minot and Prince Albert Sas...not so much.
Large animals and their hides and meat defined survival. And the ability to chip stone and preserve fire.
ONE Piece!
There is evidence of humans in North America 50K years ago.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
“The results of the study suggest the route was only usable between 12,600 and 10,000 years ago. This narrow window is too late to match with the once-prevailing Clovis First hypothesis”
2,600 years is a “narrow window?”
Wherever the herds roamed, you could as well. And with relative security.
Coprolites.
Yeah. They were tired and walked very slow.
That is very interesting. I wonder why it would have happened so many years after the flood?
That’s because they couldn’t keep their bearings straight.
Their theory is full of holes. Even if the land bridge was a wasteland I am sure that there was plenty to eat in the rivers, wetlands, and the ocean shore. There would have been plenty of seals, seabirds, seaweed, shellfish, and fish. It distance today between Russia and Alaska is roughly 60 miles which can be hiked in no more than 2 days if you are in hurry. Don’t even get me started about boats - ancient people had them and therefor did not even need a land bridge.
FAKE NEWS and sh*t science.
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