Bering land bridge theory disputed

Express-News ^ | 12 Jan 2007 | Melissa Ludwig

[Grizzled Bear]

When I was in sixth grade teacher who claimed the Earth had a broad, elliptical orbit which accounted for the seasonal changes.
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Apparently I have no respect for authority and no writing skills, yeesh!

[gardengirl]

S'all right. I took it with at face value!

[CHICAGOFARMER]

Nothing-because according to the experts it can't exist!

I remember reading an article awhile back about a portion of a creek bed much like mine being uncovered, and the discovery of human prints there as well. The scientist in charge accused the local towns people of carving the footprints and covering them back up! BWAHAHA!


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In my opinion time to find another scientist. keep trying.

[lepton]

the Indians killed off the original horses(yum)....

Of course they were "horsoids" then, not Secretariat.

[kellynch]

Not necessarily. Eons ago, when the continents were in different locations than they are now (and before all of the mountains we now see were formed), parts of North America were under water. There are marine fossils in parts of this continent that are now nowhere near the ocean.

[gardengirl]

There was a whole line of these sandstone boulders about half a mile from the cheerio rock. Same color, etc. We just had the only one with remnants of marine life. Glacier moved?

[ken21]

thx.

[gardengirl]

It's like talking to liberals! :)

[Leatherneck_MT]

lol oh lord

[xcamel]

Ah.. but the Camel, and it's entire family, originated **only** in North America.

[xcamel]

..about the same time humans prefected "Bravo Sierra"

[xcamel]

Right-O!

I have a ~~9000 year old 'fleshing Stone' found right in my yard here in upstate NY.
I rarely even show it because it "doesn't exist" in the eyes of "conventional wisdom", isn't made of the "correct material" (it's a grade 9 limestone piece - and sharp as hell, with finely honed and dead straight edges), and is from "the edge of the glacier" where no man could or would have lived "when it was made".
Go Figure.

[fish hawk]

Then the White Man came along and smoked them.

[gardengirl]

More artifacts exist like that than we realize. I spent a LOT of time, not just in the creek, but looking for arrowheads. On this particualr day, I was playing in a gravel deposit in the edge of the creek and collecting rocks. When I got home, I showed my dad the neat fish-shaped rock I'd found. He laughed. It was an arrowhead, perfect, flint?/quartz?, and beautiful. I didn't recognize it at the time because I wasn't looking for arrowheads-I was looking for rocks. LOL

[sig226]

As stockpirate noted, there have been other threads about this on FR recently. IIRC, I first saw it in Scientific American this fall. The sites they are examining seem to predate the clovis sites by tens of thousands of years, and the dna links they're studying seem more connected to southeast Asia than northeast Russia. That was from a study of South American Indians, comparing them to people from - I want to say Indonesia, but they were probably from the continent. I'll see if I can find a link.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thank you.

Nothing says there was only "one" group of people coming through.

[RobbyS]

The only reason why Indians took to riding horses was because they first saw whites riding them and thought--yeah, what a good idea. Ditto the lance. The Comanche were pretty good at each, and of course great a shooting arrows from a full gallop. It took W.T. Sherman himself finally to taken them down.

[ValerieUSA]

OOOOOOOH

[zot]

Pre-Clovis ping.

[RobbyS]

The Chickasaw certain got horses from the whites--from the French, the Spanish, and the English. and they even developed their own horse, the quarter-horse. Upon removal they drove hundreds from Tennessee, up the Arkansas into Oklahoma.