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Posted on 02/04/2020 10:55:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...the Neanderthals who lived in Chagyrskaya Cave in southern Siberia around 54,000 years ago. Their distinctive stone tools are dead ringers for those found thousands of kilometres away in eastern and central Europe.
The intercontinental journey made by these intrepid Neanderthals is equivalent to walking from Sydney to Perth, or from New York to Los Angeles, and is a rare example of long-distance migration by Palaeolithic people...
Neanderthals are now believed to have created 176,000 year-old enigmatic structures made from broken stalactites in a cave in France, and cave art in Spain that dates back more than 65,000 years.
They also used bird feathers and pierced shells bearing traces of red and yellow ochre, possibly as personal ornaments...
Neanderthals ventured beyond Europe and western Asia, reaching at least as far east as the Altai Mountains. Here, they interbred with another group of archaic humans dubbed the Denisovans...
Chagyrskaya Cave is nestled in the foothills of the Altai Mountains. The cave deposits were first excavated in 2007 and have yielded almost 90,000 stone tools and numerous bone tools.
The excavations have also found 74 Neanderthal fossils -- the richest trove of any Altai site -- and a range of animal and plant remains, including the abundant bones of bison hunted and butchered by the Neanderthals...
The presence of Micoquian artefacts at Chagyrskaya Cave suggests at least two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia. Sites such as Denisova Cave were occupied by Neanderthals who entered the region before 100,000 years ago, while the Chagyrskaya Neanderthals arrived later.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
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Why not? The first Americans were able to come across the Bering land bridge and spread all the way to the tip of South America in minus 5000 years before they crossed. :)
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I see I’m not the only one who has read “The Electric Koolaid Acid Test”-Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters-followers of the Grateful Dead-Mountain Girl,etc...
“Jared Diamond, after finding evidence, suggests that it took 15,000 years to propagate the Americas after the breach through the iced Bering Strait.”
I hate to break it to you, but the Americas were not initially populated from Asia. Evidence points to Europe as the source, specifically coastal France (the Solutrean hypothesis). The oldest archaeological sites get progressively younger as you move northwest towards Alaska. The oldest sites are along the NA east coast.
Also, a good portion (perhaps most) of the older sites are now underwater, along both coast lines...
I trust JD.
They probably traveled hundreds of miles in a generation, and then the next one did the same, all the time making the same tools handed down father to son. Eventuaally they got there.
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