Pendants made from giant sloths suggest earlier arrival of people in the Americas

The Associated Press (via MSN.com) ^ | 11 July 2023 | Christina Larson

[zeestephen]

New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths...Scientists analyzed...pendants made of bony material from the sloths...Dating of the ornaments and sediment at the Brazil site where they were found point to an age of 25,000 to 27,000 years ago...

[Texan5]

I agree-there is more Asian DNA in Native American racial make-up-Polynesians have/had more East Asian ancestry than anything else while Native Americans in Alaska, Canada, etc are mostly Asian, but with ancestors from China, Siberia, Mongolia, etc.

The most European/Caucasian DNA in a Native population is supposedly in the tribes that originated in the Plains and to the East-I’ve read that the highest percentage of Caucasian DNA is found in members of the Cherokee and related tribes-there have been several studies on that-just the difference in facial features of Native Americans from one tribe to another shows that they are not all descended from just one group of people from one place...

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Musta been some mighty humongous pendants.

Prolly only wooly mammoths could wear them.

[Texan5]

The Polynesians could have come from What is now Australia and nearby to what is now S America-it is a long trek, but they were skilled sailors since day one. Also, the sea level in the late ice age was a lot lower-maybe allowing for stops to get provisions before sailing/paddling on. However it happened, they managed to get there, bringing their DNA early on-I’d love to know who-if anyone-was already there in what is now the far edge of SA for the sailors to interact with-the whole concept is fascinating...

[Boogieman]

“Pendants made from giant sloths suggest earlier arrival of people in the Americas”

Or alternatively, it suggests that the giant sloths went extinct much more recently than scientists have speculated. Which is probably the correct viewpoint, since the same type of large-scale extinction events of megafauna happened just about everywhere else in the world as well, and we know in those cases it coincided with mass migrations of humans into those areas. So it should probably be the default assumption that the megafauna extinction in the Americas happened for the same reasons.

[SunkenCiv]

If anything, since the population of South America is many thousands of years older than anything in Polynesia, it means that Polynesia was colonized from South America. :^)

[Texan5]

I’ve read that there is evidence of humans traveling to Australia from the area of what is now Laos as long as 80,000 years ago-and evidence of them living in Australia at least 65,000 years ago- I could see them going to S America early on with sea levels lower-I suppose they weren’t Polynesians yet-the word just means many islands in Greek, so maybe it is a matter of what people are called rather than what those people did and when? I hope some team of archaeologists gets to the truth of it soon-it would be nice to know who the REAL indigenous people of the American continent were...

[SunkenCiv]

I think we’ve got at least one topic about that very thing somewhere in the FRchives. :^)

[rustling sound] oh, looks at least five:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/929661/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1208489/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1210416/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1541315/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3315076/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3316087/posts

https://freerepublic.com/tag/preclovis/index?tab=articles

Also see this much smaller keyword:

https://freerepublic.com/tag/luzia/index?tab=articles