Grizzlies in the Journals
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 ...
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!
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?
But the footprint is twice as old as the Earth.
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
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.
#4 If they took the Pan-American Highway then a few weeks tops.
#13 Some real estate agent said the land up north was called Greenland so they went after leaving a deposit with the agent.
“I beg to differ!”
I already knew that.
LOL
Thanks. I completely missed that. Gringo bias at work there.
less than a month for one-third to one-half the distance, as evidenced by our current migrants
“We broke camp today, and couldn’t find Billy-Bob. We did find his wedding ring inside some nearby bear scat...” — Merriweather Lewis
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. :^)
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.
For anyone interested in this topic here is a link to an article
with theories about the land bridge, people locating, etc.
A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas
Published Oct. 3, 2017
A 20 minute or so read.......
LOL
That explains the fossilized baby back ribs.
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