Posted on 02/12/2023 10:21:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I find it so interesting they seldom mention migration from the east, constantly pushing Asia. The earliest tools found in Eastern US closely match those found in France.
Yeah, because we all know they were both hydrophobic and to stupid to know how to float. Why does this antiquated perspective continue to be repeated?
I am convinced there was also a Southern migration long before. Both the winds and currents are extremely favorable for a quick float from Australia and New Zealand along the coast of Antarctica to the tip of South America.
Plenty of food and water along Antarctica.
We have trouble visioning this perspective because we have the Mercator Projection burned into our subconscious. When in reality if by water it would be closer than the Northern route.
There is also the Black Current which swings by Japan and goes to SA near Peru.
Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided...Peleg means division.
A reasonable inference thus relates Peleg's birth to the Bering Sea land-bridge's parting, whether or not it was actually used for migration.
Doesn’t matter. Early humans took up sailing a long time before that. Plus the oceans were smaller and saltier during the ice age, making travel less of a challenge.
Boat parts and ancient trinkets throughout coastal north America prove that transoceanic voyages occurred frequently. In the northeast, items from the 3rd century were preserved by nature, and then found by modern contemporary prople.
The boats and ships didn’t always survive the trip here, or the return trip, but left evidence of their existence. A 1715 fleet perished in a hurricane off the coast of Florida carrying Billions in gold coins, gold, jewelry, the dowery of the Queen of spain. Those items get pushed on shore during hurricanes.
Historians tried to tell us that trans oceanic travel couldn’t occur back then, but they were wrong. Very wrong. People like to and often need to move. Nations seek riches and will exploit anyone they can to acquire those riches in whatever form they come in to fulfillthose desires or needs.
All that ice meant sea level was about 400 feet lower. Any settlements or artifacts are under water.
“There is also the Black Current which swings by Japan and goes to SA near Peru.”
True!
So nobody ever builds settlements or leaves artifacts above 400 feet above sea level? Amazing!
Not really my point. If you are paddling your way to a new world you most likely are hugging the coastline. That ancient coastline is currently 400 feet under water. And can be quite a distance offshore from our current coastline. So they could have wandered far and wide but still be in an area now inundated with sea water.
Congratulations and welcome to the fold.
Yes, island hopping might have been an option back in the day when the Kurile and Aleutian chains occupied a more temperate zone than is currently the case . . . or even might have been fewer and larger islands.
During both my Undergraduate and Graduate schooling, I was taught the ice free corridor and the human caused mega fauna extintion. The evidence was scarce and probably largely invented or misinterpreted.
The dinosaurs like me are dying off in large numbers every year. Very soon, this nonsense will be purged like the Plitdown hoax. Soon, Science will recognize the coastal route, perhaps along both the Atlantic and Pacific shores as the main routes. If the ice free corridor was ever used, it was infrequent and unimportant.
“the oceans were smaller and saltier during the ice age,” -— So was the vocabulary.
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