Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago, Study Says

National Geographic News ^ | 3-13-2008 | Stefan Lovgren

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GGG Ping.

Indian DNA Links To 6 'Founding Mothers'

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I bet the “natives” are getting restless about this...?

[Resolute Conservative]

“Genetic evidence, for instance, points to a founding population of less than 5,000 individuals.”

I can trace mine back to 2 individuals.

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The Schaefer mammoth, found in Wisconsin bearing cut marks suggesting it was butchered by humans, is thought by archaeologists to be about 14,500 years old.

The remains are part of a growing body of genetic and archaeological evidence suggesting that humans crossed the Bering land bridge about 22,000 years ago, then moved southward relatively late after melting ice cleared a path through Canada, a new study says.

Photograph courtesy D. Joyce

[TheThirdRuffian]

“Goebel”

Unfortunate name for a geneticist.

[kidd]

a "ferocious army of predators" living in North America

Damn lawyers.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I LOL’d. I hope that was a humorous post, if so I got it. If you were being series, oops... :o)

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[isrul]

It's either a fact or it isn't. The idea of consensus is ridiculous.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

There was a show on the History Channel the other day which has another theory entirely. This idea is that the Clovis culture's technology was not derived from the technology of Eastern Siberia, since points in that area were made by putting bits of sharp stone on the sides of sticks of wood or ivory. The carefully flaked Clovis points is much more similar to tools of the Cro-Magnons, and Cro-Magnon art suggests that they had boats to hunt seals. So this is a theory the the first Americans crossed the Atlantic, going from ice floe to ice floe. They then suggest that the climate change of the Younger-Dryad era gave rise to tremendous dust storms of Loess, destroying the Mega Fauna and crippling the Clovis people. This was followed by the Asian migration into Alaska, which obliterated or replaced the Clovis people.

[dfwgator]

The article, which is published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, shows that the first Americans came from a single Siberian population and ventured across the Bering land bridge connecting Asia and North America about 22,000 years ago.

The original "illegal immigrants."

[Billthedrill]

Oh, great. We got another glacial maximum on the way and we're probably going to get another influx of migratory foreigners when it hap

Oh, wait...

[TexasNative2000]

Unfortunate name for a geneticist.

Now why would you say that?

[hellbender]

But then the group got stuck for up to 5,000 years, blocked by thick ice sheets across Canada...It was only when the ice had melted sufficiently that humans began to spread south...

"We all have open minds, and we will leave them open," Harpending said.

Speaking of open minds, he should remind the warming alarmists that Global Warming made settlement of the Americas possible.

[LowTaxesEqualProsperity]

When is the United States going to withdraw from the occupied territories?

This is what we keep asking Israel to do. They were attacked. We were not.

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Got a kid to donate?

[tbw2]

And vegetarianism!
Prior to agriculture, made possible by global warming, humans were hunter gatherers, with an emphasis on the hunting.

[Revolting cat!]

Oh yeah, about 8,500 years before the Good Lord created the Earth, right!

[Coyoteman]

Oh yeah, about 8,500 years before the Good Lord created the Earth, right!

Or about 4.52 billion years after.