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North America Settled by Just 70 People, Study Concludes
Live Science ^ | May, 25, 2005 | Jody Hey

Posted on 05/08/2011 7:55:52 AM PDT by wildbill

A new study of DNA suggests North America was originally populated by just a few dozen people who crossed a land bridge from Asia during the last Ice Age.

About 14,000 years ago, humans crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America, most experts agree. But just how many intrepid explorers were involved in spawning subsequent populations has not been known.

"The estimated effective size of the founding population for the New World is about 70 individuals," said Jody Hey, a professor of genetics at Rutgers University.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ancientamericans; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; population; settlement
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To: wildbill

March 24, 2011
Discovery in Texas suggests earlier settlers in North America
By Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The discovery of ancient stone tools at an archaeological dig in Texas could push back the presence of humans in North America, perhaps by as much as 2,500 years.
Thousands of artifacts dating to between 13,200 and 15,500 years ago were uncovered by researchers led by Michael R. Waters of Texas A&M University. They report the discovery in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.
The find was located 5 feet below materials left by the well-known Clovis culture, which was once thought to have been the first American settlers around 13,000 years ago.

http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x1796603766/Discovery-in-Texas-suggests-earlier-settlers-in-North-America


41 posted on 05/08/2011 9:30:59 AM PDT by B212
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To: wildbill

I take it that there are no Native Americans then?

Just an argument over when everyone got here.


42 posted on 05/08/2011 9:37:49 AM PDT by PeteB570 (Islam is the sea in which the terrorist shark swims. It aids & comforts the shark on it's journey.)
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To: maryz

Wait a week and the stories will change. I have been reading a bout this stuff since I was 15, 50 years, and I have come to the conclusion that they haven’t a clue.


43 posted on 05/08/2011 9:44:46 AM PDT by Little Bill (Sorry)
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44 posted on 05/08/2011 9:50:05 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Krankor

Biologists have shown that the rate of reproduction of any species is inversely proportional to it’s rate of survival. This is why the birthrates are so in the West and so much higher in the Middle East.


45 posted on 05/08/2011 10:01:26 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: wolfman23601

There is a lot about our history that we will never know about in this life.

It will be a gift from God when we shall see the true history of mankind and the paths our ancestors took prior to our individual existence.


46 posted on 05/08/2011 10:06:02 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: wolfman23601
I do believe some Asiana came across the land bridge as suggested, but do not believe Lied Ericson was the next to make it here.

There is proof that Chinese came to the west coast of North America in the late 6th century, and co-mingled with the native Americans. Historical Chinese records write of boat travelers trading with the Americans in the far lands now known as Mexico, and document plants that only grow in America. Also verbal records of some Americans correlate to the Chinese records. I studied this over forty years ago, was controversial back then because Columbus was "supposed" to be the first.

47 posted on 05/08/2011 10:08:33 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: wildbill

I guess they excluded the olmecs and those others who came by boat


48 posted on 05/08/2011 10:10:45 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: roadcat

Columbus was recognized as the first “Government” to reach the new world. To think he was the first anything else is ridiculous.


49 posted on 05/08/2011 10:13:01 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: org.whodat
I used to think that until I started researching Mrs. Mad’s and my genealogy. There are many relatives in both our families that lived well into their 60’s in the 15th century. Actually I was shocked at how many. Seems if you made it out of childhood your chances were pretty good.
50 posted on 05/08/2011 10:16:35 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Ladies and Gentlemen the _resident of the untied States!!)
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To: cripplecreek

“Not all of us are willing to assume that the western hemisphere was settled once from Asia alone.”

I agree with you, totally.


51 posted on 05/08/2011 10:16:35 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Archeological evidence of ice age arrivals from Europe would likely be erased by rising sea levels. A seafaring or shore dwelling culture wouldn’t immediately flood inland as they arrived. They would stick to what they knew and adapt and expand inland as their numbers grew.

A couple of hundred miles of continental shelf on the east coast was once habitable dry land.


52 posted on 05/08/2011 10:26:05 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: wildbill

Wrong what about the east coast?


53 posted on 05/08/2011 10:28:14 AM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: B212

bump

“Discovery in Texas suggests earlier settlers in North America”


54 posted on 05/08/2011 10:28:20 AM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: wildbill

My guess is that some smart progressive thinker will assert these 70 people who crossed the land bridge after trekking mightily through the plains of the mideast, the mountains of the Himalyas, the frozen wastelands of the Russian/Mongolian Tundra, originally came from Mother Africa......ha ha..


55 posted on 05/08/2011 10:31:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: B212

They were just 70 Yankees who pretended to be here first.\

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/texas-dig-solidifies-evidence-that-the-first-americans-were-here-15000-years-ago/2011/03/24/ABgKi4PB_story.html


56 posted on 05/08/2011 10:34:18 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: mad_as_he$$
If you lived past three your chances were good. It was the transition from the boob to solid food that did a lot of kids in. Remember it is average age, I had several that lived in to their 90’s in the 15th Century.
57 posted on 05/08/2011 10:35:24 AM PDT by Little Bill (Sorry)
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To: cripplecreek

Thank you.


58 posted on 05/08/2011 10:45:36 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: wildbill
Yes, it was actually one Muslim guy with 69 virgin wives-

three died earlier from eating Baked Alaska and

were quickly buried at sea before the other 69 could ask them any questions.

59 posted on 05/08/2011 10:56:49 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: greyfoxx39; colorcountry; Colofornian; Elsie; Godzilla; MHGinTN; narses; reaganaut; SENTINEL; ...
For some mysterious reason, the study cited in the article omitted the Nephites, Lamanites, Mulekites and Jarrodites. Can any of you guess the reason why?
60 posted on 05/08/2011 11:40:12 AM PDT by Zakeet (U.S. Navy SEAL cocktail - two shots and a splash of water)
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