Yeah, so, they lived, and many generations of their descendants have lived and still do, in the frozen Arctic, but they were only able to take boats a couple of times. Idiocy.
All of them came by boat.
Posted on 02/12/2023 10:21:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The first people to enter the Americas may have taken the coastal route along the Bering Strait Land Bridge during these two periods.
During the last ice age, the coastal route from Asia to North America was so treacherous, humans likely crossed over only during two time windows, when environmental factors were more favorable for the long and dangerous journey, a new study finds.
The first window lasted from 24,500 to 22,000 years ago, and the other spanned from 16,400 to 14,800 years ago, according to the study, published Feb. 6 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(opens in new tab).
During these periods, winter sea ice cover and sea ice-free summers would have likely given these travelers access to a diverse marine buffet, as well as ways to safely travel along the North Pacific coast, the researchers said.
There are two main scenarios explaining how people may have first migrated to the New World. The older idea suggested that people made this journey on land when Beringia — the land bridge that once connected Asia with North America — was relatively ice-free. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that travelers used watercraft along the Pacific coasts of Asia, Beringia and North America before 15,000 years ago, when giant ice sheets would have made an overland journey extraordinarily difficult.
To see how viable the coastal route may have been for migration at different times, scientists analyzed how changes in climate over the past 45,000 years might have influenced sea ice, glacier extent, ocean current strength, and food supplies on land and sea.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
During the last ice age, when hunters and gatherers crossed the ancient Bering Land Bridge that connected Asia with North America, they carried something special with them in their genetic code: pieces of ancestral Australian DNA, a new study finds.
Over the generations, these people and their descendants trekked southward, making their way to South America. Even now, more than 15,000 years after these people crossed the Bering Land Bridge, their descendants — who still carry ancestral Australian genetic signatures — can be found in parts of the South American Pacific coast and in the Amazon, the researchers found...
The new research builds on earlier work, first published in 2015, which showed that ancient and modern Indigenous people in the Amazon shared specific genetic signatures — known as the Ypikuéra, or Y signal — with modern-day Indigenous groups in South Asia, Australia and Melanesia, a group of islands in Oceania.1st Americans had Indigenous Australian genes | Laura Geggel | April 02, 2021
Wow. All that “climate change” and sea level change. How was that even possible?>
Yeah, so, they lived, and many generations of their descendants have lived and still do, in the frozen Arctic, but they were only able to take boats a couple of times. Idiocy.
All of them came by boat.
I found a Titleist in the blowhole!
The sea route is the most logical explanation of how people were able to get to Monte Verde in Chile so early.
Humans began sailing the seas over a hundred thousand years so I believe most native Americans came to the New World by boat. If you have to move yourself, your family, and everything you own then a boat makes a much better option than tracking by foot through frozen, shitty tundra.
2,500 years does not a brief window make....
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I don’t know. I’ve seen folks with walkers moving really slow.
My understanding is that no artifacts of boats or canoes or rafts of any kind exist from the Bering land bridge period.
It is also hard to understand how you could repair or build a new water craft if your original one was damaged or wrecked.
I am thinking that wood would be in very short supply on the land bridge during the glacial maximum.
Limited wood also means limited cooking and limited warmth.
Almost impossible to understand how enough people survived the coastal journey to the south to create the millions of indigenous settlers that eventually populated North and South America.
There’s no such thing as a “native” American. They all came here from somewhere else. The earliest known, so far, came from around Polynesia to South America by boat. This “Native American” gimmic is used by politicians with a guilt complex.
Must have been a real freeze-over for those Polynesians to get to Hawaii.
They were Russians doing what Russians do... invade.
Brief? The earliest was 2500 years long, and the second was 1600 years long.
Seal skin boats, easy to repair, are still in use today and presumably they were in use then, but of course they would have rotted away by now and the settlements covered by many feet of water.
Must have been a real freeze-over for those Polynesians to get to Hawaii.
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They used boast like everyone else. No ice needed.
“I’ve seen folks with walkers moving really slow.”
Reminds me of the opening scene of “Office Space”!
I knew a Native American anthropologist in a former life who agreed with you. He pointed out the remnants of civilization in the warmer climes of the Americas and asked why there were none along the popular Bering Land Bridge route.
They didn’t have a strong enough government to tax and control all forms of human behavior.
If they did, they could have prevented the climate changes.
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