Posted on 12/10/2003 1:30:57 PM PST by blam
Even assuming multiple migrations of people using different languages, she figures that people first showed up in the Americas at least 35,000 years ago. If archaeologists haven't found proof of such ancient events, well, "as a linguist, that's not my problem," Nichols shrugs. Clovis-first, she says, is "not remotely possible."
Gotta appreciate this lady's style, eh? Seems the bone diggers have their work cut out for 'em. They're haggling over a thousand years, give or take, when they may in fact have only scratched the surface. Dig a little deeper in the well boys.
BTW blam, you've mentioned a number of times you're an adherent to catastrophoism(I tend to lean that way). Have you run across this piece yet, Noah's Flood - Where did the water come from?
The authors admit it's a provocative theory based on Biblical reference, FYI.
FGS
Yes, I've seen many of these. I think Noah's Flood is related to flooding caused by the melting of ice at the end of the last Ice Age. There may in fact been a number of "Noah's Floods" all over the world.
Then you believe "The Flood" was a gradual thing globally but could have caused catastrophic flooding regionally from breached natural dams, etc? You gotta admit "fountains from the deep" is an intriguing theory, eh?
There may in fact been a number of "Noah's Floods" all over the world.
Altogether possible. Some maybe even global catastrophes occurring over a matter of days or weeks? A sudden parting of the mid oceanic ridge(s) would create all manner of problems....unlikely as it may be.
FGS
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this appears to be the oldest FR topic about Al Goodyear:
Site Sheds Light on Human Arrival
Source: AP via Yahoo
Published: May 26, 2001
Posted on 05/27/2001 06:25:12 PDT by sarcasm
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ALLENDALE, S.C. (AP) - Some chipped tools and stone flakes found on a hill above a remote and wooded stretch of the Savannah River may show humans arrived in America about 3,000 years earlier than first thought.
Researchers have generally accepted that the first humans came to America as primitive hunters from Asia 12,000 years ago. But the South Carolina finds are the latest evidence that the continent was inhabited 15,000 years ago, well before the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago, archaeologists say.
"It is now reasonable to think of humans living on this landscape perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 years ago," said University of South Carolina archaeologist Albert Goodyear, who is helping to excavate the site. "It's the dawn of a new chapter in what was already a good book."
Coupled with mounting evidence of early human activity from scattered locations including a gravel pit in Virginia, a cave in Pennsylvania and a bog in Chile, the stone tools excavated in South Carolina suggest that human populations were spread across both continents 15,000 years ago.
Last year, a University of Oklahoma archaeologist suggested some broken stone tools found in the northwestern part of the state could be at least 22,000 years old.
The sites are so far apart that the earliest visitors could only have arrived earlier than once thought, or reached the Americas by more than one route, some researches theorize.
Goodyear and his team of archaeologists first uncovered the tools three years ago along a section of the river in Allendale County owned by Clariant, a Swiss-based chemical company.
Microscopic analysis of the stone chips confirmed that they could only have been created by human activity. The area may have served as a sort of workshop, where prehistoric people made the implements they needed for working wood and scraping animal hides.
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