Posted on 03/13/2008 2:12:58 PM PDT by blam
All kidding aside, isn’t it remarkable that a few thousand humans could populate the entire western hemisphere, from the arctic, through north and central america, to the Andes and beyond, and raise such spectacular civilizations like the Maya, in only fifteen thousand years? How many generations is that?
He is always searching for the purest, most uncorrupted genes. :-P
you mean, that GLOBAL WARMING had to occur before the people migrated from Alaska on south, just what was going on to warm the planet, to melt the ice sheets, 15-20 thousand years ago?
no cars, no bad, big-business, no airplanes, no fossil fuels?
One wonders.
Those Hummel figures are still owned by the Goebel family; they are completley unapologetic about their Nazi past.
...so it this before Adam & Eve ??
At 20 years per generation, it is 750 generations.
Is there discussion of the possibility of movement by water along the west coast of N. America from Alaska? Thus bypassing the land route blocked by glaciers.
“Is there discussion of the possibility of movement by water along the west coast of N. America from Alaska? Thus bypassing the land route blocked by glaciers.”
It has been considered. There were NA civilizations all along the Pacific coast.
I remember hearing once, that the largest population of Indians when the Europeans came to north America, was in the Lost Angeles basin—a moderate climate where you can hunt, gather, fish.
This is called the "early coastal migration" theory, and there is now a lot of information to support it.
These coastal migrations were in addition to, rather than instead of, the land migration.
Google "early coastal migration" or "kelp highway" for more information.
There's that weasel phrase, "the bulk of".
I am quite sure that settlements or occupation sites have been discovered in South America considerably older than that.
I thought we got here after the human race was destroyed by the Cylons and the 45,000 remaining left to find Earth.
It would make sense. All of the exploration of America was first along rivers as the easiest method of transportation.
Who were the people who migrated? What drove them to migrate? What did they find when they arrived?
ping
I remember George, a real funny guy.
Lonesome George (George Gobel); yeah, he was funny.
They struggled until they got to good beaches - I mean, until they got to more temperate climates.
Study Says Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago
Source: National Geographic
Published: 8-31-2001 Author: Not stated
Posted on 09/03/2001 06:59:54 PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b938cda48c8.htm
I have recently become aware of a term that is used in radical environmentalism and Liberation Theology. It’s technocentrism, the over reliance on technology and science. In other words we wouldn’t want to let a few facts get in the way of a consensus.
Settled or colonized might be too strong as descriptive terms for what was happening.
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