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.
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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.
I take it that there are no Native Americans then?
Just an argument over when everyone got here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I guess they excluded the olmecs and those others who came by boat
Columbus was recognized as the first “Government” to reach the new world. To think he was the first anything else is ridiculous.
“Not all of us are willing to assume that the western hemisphere was settled once from Asia alone.”
I agree with you, totally.
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.
Wrong what about the east coast?
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“Discovery in Texas suggests earlier settlers in North America”
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..
They were just 70 Yankees who pretended to be here first.\
Thank you.
three died earlier from eating Baked Alaska and
were quickly buried at sea before the other 69 could ask them any questions.
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