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Oldest Human Footprint in Americas May Be This 15,600-Year-Old Mark in Chile
Live Science ^ | May 1, 2019 | Laura Geggel

Posted on 05/04/2019 9:20:01 AM PDT by rdl6989

The earliest human footprint on record in the Americas wasn't found in Canada, the United States or even Mexico; it was found much farther south, in Chile, and it dates to an astonishing 15,600 years ago, a new study finds.

The finding sheds light on when humans first reached the Americas, likely by traveling across the Bering Strait land bridge in the midst of the last ice age.

This 10.2-inch-long (26 centimeters) print might even be evidence of pre-Clovis people in South America, the group that came before the Clovis, which are known for their distinctive spearheads, the researchers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; chile; clovis; godsgravesglyphs; laurageggel; navigation; preclovis; troll49
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To: SunkenCiv

Human ancestors crossed to Flores from SE Asia 800,000 years ago.

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Yeah but those guys were so small you could get a jillion of ‘em in a single boat!


41 posted on 05/04/2019 11:30:50 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: rdl6989

Turns out the Indians stole South America from black people and stole North America from white people.

Is it too late to ask for reparations?


42 posted on 05/04/2019 11:47:24 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: rdl6989

But the footprint is twice as old as the Earth.


43 posted on 05/04/2019 11:47:41 AM PDT by TheNext (Democrats kill people with Gun Control)
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To: rdl6989

The interesting thing is a date that old may require assessing WHEN humans got to the New World

The ice age land bridge theories plus the traversal of that much distance - that they got across differently and/or moved along coasts quite fast to get to south america


44 posted on 05/04/2019 12:43:40 PM PDT by elbook
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Going north to the frozen wastes doesn’t make sense."

It does if you are moving to get away from another group who perceives you as an enemy, or has superior weaponry and wants the spot where you happen to be living at the time.

The spread of migration in the Americas shows the leading group as very primitive, with "technologically superior" waves pushing them along. Compare the "indigenes" of Tierra del Fuego with the Eskimo. Very similar climatic conditions, very different technology level.

45 posted on 05/04/2019 1:21:40 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

#4 If they took the Pan-American Highway then a few weeks tops.


46 posted on 05/04/2019 1:26:00 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
and sea levels rose over 100 feet all over the world

Actually more like 300 feet ... that vertical scale on the graph is in metres, not feet


47 posted on 05/04/2019 1:37:15 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

#13 Some real estate agent said the land up north was called Greenland so they went after leaving a deposit with the agent.


48 posted on 05/04/2019 1:37:36 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: ivory49

“I beg to differ!”

I already knew that.


49 posted on 05/04/2019 1:41:21 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

LOL


50 posted on 05/04/2019 1:49:16 PM PDT by ivory49
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To: canuck_conservative

Thanks. I completely missed that. Gringo bias at work there.


51 posted on 05/04/2019 1:59:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SunkenCiv
"... how many sabertooth cats, short-faced bears, and dire wolves did the firearm-equipped Lewis & Clark have to contend with..."

Grizzlies in the Journals


52 posted on 05/04/2019 3:07:13 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

less than a month for one-third to one-half the distance, as evidenced by our current migrants


53 posted on 05/04/2019 3:26:51 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: rdl6989
They rode in on coconuts. 🤣😜
54 posted on 05/04/2019 5:57:46 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: nicollo

“We broke camp today, and couldn’t find Billy-Bob. We did find his wedding ring inside some nearby bear scat...” — Merriweather Lewis


55 posted on 05/04/2019 6:28:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Wonder Warthog; ProtectOurFreedom

It also makes sense if the culture is already cold adapted, and the glaciers continually melt their way back into the oceans, freeing up new lands to the north. :^)


56 posted on 05/04/2019 6:29:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: canuck_conservative; ProtectOurFreedom

The higher the latitude, the larger the number of feet, so, Beringia, the “land bridge” between Alaska and Siberia, is submerged by something like 800 feet of water.


57 posted on 05/04/2019 6:31:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Viking2002
Monty Python Holy Grail Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?>

Monty Python Holy Grail Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

58 posted on 05/04/2019 6:33:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: rdl6989

For anyone interested in this topic here is a link to an article
with theories about the land bridge, people locating, etc.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/a-brief-history-of-everyone-who-ever-lived/537942/

A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas
Published Oct. 3, 2017
A 20 minute or so read.......


59 posted on 05/04/2019 6:41:22 PM PDT by deport
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To: Verginius Rufus

LOL

That explains the fossilized baby back ribs.


60 posted on 05/04/2019 6:49:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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