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We Now Know How The First People Reached America – And It Wasn’t On Foot...The land bridge over the Bering Strait wasn't the way in after all.
IFL Science ^ | October 24, 2025 | Benjamin Taub

Posted on 10/24/2025 5:48:08 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/24/2025 5:48:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

PinGGG, Papasan White Eyes!..............


2 posted on 10/24/2025 5:48:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I thought the land bridge was “settled science.”


3 posted on 10/24/2025 5:55:19 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

Science is never ‘settled’.........


4 posted on 10/24/2025 5:58:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Interesting theory, but there’s a whole lot of speculation padding it as well. I’ll reserve judgment until they find some ancient sake bottles or something.


5 posted on 10/24/2025 6:04:27 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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6 posted on 10/24/2025 6:07:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: fidelis

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk5081


7 posted on 10/24/2025 6:09:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: fidelis

” a whole lot of speculation padding it as well”

No kidding. Just using similarity of arrow heads seems like a huge stretch. There are only a few ways to chip a stone arrow head and it was probably conceived all over the world. And, how slow was the journey from NE Asia to North America? 10 years? 100 years? 1,000 years? A lot would be forgotten in the longer time periods, new ideas conceived. I would think it would be very hard to connect something as simple as arrow heads over 100 or 1,000 years.

I’m not even an amateur. I know nothing about such anthropology. But this seems like a big stretch.


8 posted on 10/24/2025 6:17:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

So they came from someplace?..gee I thought they just sprang up out of the ground,you know, indigenous....how dare anyone else show up.


9 posted on 10/24/2025 6:21:42 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

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10 posted on 10/24/2025 6:22:04 PM PDT by cherry
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’ve often thought the rising sea level after the ice age would have flooded many sites. Also as remote as the region is there are probably archeological sites that simply haven’t been found.


11 posted on 10/24/2025 6:24:14 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Indeed. A 400 foot sea level rise buried LOTS of seaside villages. But it happened so gradually that the people kept moving inland

Droughts n the US periodically dry up manmade reservoirs revealing villages and towns. At one location, an old steam locomotive was revealed!


12 posted on 10/24/2025 6:28:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

On a competing thread ... they came via the land bridge:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4348488/posts


13 posted on 10/24/2025 6:32:49 PM PDT by TexasGator (1The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: cherry

So they came from someplace?..gee I thought they just sprang up out of the ground,you know, indigenous
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I heard a Chumash Indian say that their Creation story shows them as being created in California. He was quite emphatic that they didn’t come from somewhere else but are the original inhabitants of this land. He said they didn’t sell the land or sign a treaty; the land was stolen from them.


14 posted on 10/24/2025 6:39:56 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Red Badger

Kon Tiki....


15 posted on 10/24/2025 6:44:34 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Red Badger

Are you a climate denier?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?


16 posted on 10/24/2025 6:46:53 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Steely Tom

If the land bridge had not been there they probably would not have come by boat either.


17 posted on 10/24/2025 6:50:35 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: KittyKares

How about the Jomon people that are mostly in Hokkaido and in Okinawa?

Their genetics show them to be a very old people, comparable to the Basques and Siberians.


18 posted on 10/24/2025 6:52:31 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Red Badger

The one below makes more sense to me...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk5081

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4348488/posts


19 posted on 10/24/2025 6:54:53 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

This makes sense
People would take “modern tech” (arrow heads at that time) with them as they travelled. The tech of arrow heads never matched the “settled science” of the land bridge.

This was a counter theory 40+ years ago. See it’s getting some traction


20 posted on 10/24/2025 6:54:59 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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