Research Casts New Light On History Of North America

Newswise ^ | 7-1-2008 | Valparaiso University

[pabianice]

The early Europeans “sailed” here in small boats that hugged the then-huge glacial shelf that ran from Portugal and Spain to Canada, with stops along the way at the islands in between. They never went to sea, but the boats allowed rapid travel following game. Their arrival in northern North America was thousands of land miles from Mexico and Central America, a distance that would have taken thousands of years to migrate over through rough terrain and obstacles. The finding of Clovis Points that mirror Solutrian Points from Spain cannot be a coincidence.

[Cronos]

Valid -- I said

Who says the first Americans sailed here -- sailing wasn't well known until later. Secondly, there was no such thing as "Europeans" -- both the Mongoloid/Altaic people who the native Americans are supposedly descended from and the present day Europeans come from the same stock of humans who were cut off from Africa and spread over Eurasia. The separation of races happened only later as populations grew and people became less nomadic -- witness the Tocharians living in Xinjiang.

This only disproves any notion of people Sailing across and also points out that people from the east and west of the Eurasian continent are pretty close relatives, hence whichever way the first Americans came from, they would be closely related to both sides. And finally, there is no definite idea of a European dating back to 10,000 BC as at that time even Indo-Europeans were living in Anatolia-Central Asia-NorthWest India.

Finally, those peoples who came from the east into the Americas would have been absorbed by the ones coming from the west (or vice-versa) and the present day "native aMericans" would be descended from this mix, hence their differentiation between northern and central americans and south American natives.

This paragraph states that even if there was a migration from the east into the Americas, those people would have been assimilated -- case in point, look at turkmenistan or Azebaijan or Uzbekistan. Those people now sport Turkic languages but their genetic heritage and culture is largely Irani as the Iranis were once over all of that "greater iran"

[Cronos]

Well, in 10,000 BC there were no “Europeans” — those people would be just a few centuries off from when East-Asians like the Altaics/Mongoloids would have split off from the Caucasians.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 07/01/2008. Thanks blam.

• Underwater Archaeologists Find Possible Mastodon Carving On Lake Michigan Rock
• Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan
• Stonehenge in Lake Michigan?(Potentially pre-historic stone formation discovered deep underwater)
• Origins of underwater stones a mystery
• First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia Over Bering Strait

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[gleeaikin]

As I read this post I started to think about earlier posts on the Carolina Bays. My theory on them was that huge blocks of ice had been thrown that far from the boloid strikes in Lake Michigan and then melted. I think that the researchers in this article should consider the possibilit of boloid strikes in Lake Michigan causing their phenomena. I tried to find some pictures that might be similar to the Carolina Bays. Instead I found this link. If you look at the topographic map (third one down), it looks to me as if a great quantity of water was sloshed out of the southern tip of Lake Michigan, leaving a ridge of elevated land as the waters receded. Time to post the Firestone book again.

http://il.water.usgs.gov/nawqa/uirb/description/geology.html

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[SunkenCiv]

Good idea:

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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Mmmmmaybe on the splash, but OTOH, the muck farms west and south of here were formerly lakebeds, and the Kalamazoo River, which flows into the Lake at Saugatuck, carried glacial meltwater along the base of the icepack, draining the entire area now drained by the Grand River as well as the K-zoo basin. The river that now flows east and through Chicago (apart from the very end, because Chicago built a sewage treatment system that swallows the outflow of the river and makes the Lake flow inward, up the riverbed, as well) used to flow west and into the glacial-era Mississippi.