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AAAS login provides access to Science for AAAS members, and access to other journals in the Science family to users who have purchased individual subscriptions.

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Most scientists now reject the idea that the first Americans came by land

More doubt cast on the idea that people took a land route to the Americas

Underwater discovery reveals 14,550 year-old Florida mastodon hunters

Incredible discovery places humans in California 130,000 years ago

1 posted on 11/10/2017 1:57:49 AM PST by kitchen
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2 posted on 11/10/2017 1:59:25 AM PST by kitchen (If you are a violin bow maker or restorer please ping me.)
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The bit about ‘First’ always bugs me as it is so ephemeral, subject to incessant revisions as more data comes to the fore. It is also mostly immaterial to actual effects. So what if the Vikings or the Phoenicians or the Irish or the Chinese were first to ‘discover’ the Americas [after the Amerinds]? Their lasting effect was nil and Columbus / Spain were the ones who made the lasting discovery.

Don’t get me wrong, it is a good endeavor to keep looking for the older sites, especially the ones that pre-date the Clovis theory. Like plate-tectonics, some of these scientifical shibboleths need to have sunlight cast upon them. See Clarke’s 1st law: “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”


5 posted on 11/10/2017 5:42:48 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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crossed Beringia and followed a long and narrow, mostly ice-free corridor

Ice-free during that time but somehow we're suffering global warming today.

6 posted on 11/10/2017 6:03:44 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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