[blam]

* When Humboldt was touring this southern area, he recorded that there were two types of people. One was tall and slim and wore a lot of clothes, the other was short and fat and wore few clothes

* There is a recently discovered skeleton on one of the California Islands that will predate Luzia in age, I think she has been named, 'Arlington Springs Woman.'

[blam]

Arlington Springs Woman, 13,000 Year Old Skeleton, California Island

[Porterville]

This crap never ends...There from West Africa/East Asia/Northern Russia/Greenland/Atlantis and now Australia...does it ever end????

[Porterville]

This crap never ends...There from West Africa/East Asia/Northern Russia/Greenland/Atlantis and now Australia...does it ever end????

[Pan_Yans Wife]

This stuff makes me dizzy. When are the scientists ever going to get on the same page for more than a month or two?

[RichInOC]

...don't tell me--they found cavewriting that translated to:

"NOOOOOOOO POOFTERS!!!"

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[gcruse]

The identity of the first Americans is an emotive and controversial question.

Which is why, without the Internet and the BBC, this news would
never make the popular press in the US of A.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC SPOTREP

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

No mention of what's his name, up in Washington, or wherever. The one that the Native American's laid claim to...

(I'm trying to think of a clever Creationist/Darwinist jibe, but I can't)

[petuniasevan]

One little problem with the "drifted and washed ashore" theory: Note that the modern occurrence was fisherMEN. There's no reason to assume that women were out on fishing expeditions which were blown off-course.

On the other hand, if like the Polynesians the purported Aborigines were trying to retreat from enemies they might have loaded whole families into boats and tried to find new uninhabited lands.

Did you know that the Lombok Straits between Bali and Lombok (both in the country of Indonesia) separate the Indo-Malayan realm from the Austro-Malayan realm? Bali and west: elephants, orangs, tigers (once), cattle, rhinos. Lombok and east: kangaroos, birds-of-paradise, parrots, eucalyptus trees, platypus.

The animals, birds, and trees did not or could not cross the deep, treacherous Lombok Straits. But humans did, maybe as long ago as 50 or 60,000 years. The date is definitely subject to speculation; that humans DID cross the Straits long ago is not. Maybe they made the 40-mile crossing on rafts or in dugout canoes (outriggers?). Who knows? The thing to remember is, "Primitive doesn't mean stupid".

People got around in prehistoric times; we're interrelated to a greater degree than almost any other species.

[nopardons]

BTT

[armed_in_sydney]

dammit,i thought this had something to do with me sharing a surname with one of the founding fathers.

[DoctorMichael]

The first Americans were American.

[A CA Guy]

I think they found Asian remains that were older from news reports I read months ago.
I think this is a battle of scientists running around claiming they were first and they DON'T acknowledge other findings.

[RightWhale]

The Australian aborigines are Caucasoid are they not?

[SunkenCiv]

This never went out to the list.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[AD from SpringBay]

The first Americans were the men who signed the Declaration of Independence.

[freepatriot32]

knowing the bbc they probably planted the aboriginies here just so they could do a documentary about it

BBC Plants Hecklers at Conservative Party Rally!

[WoofDog123]

'The pre-European Fuegeans, who lived stone age-style lives until this century, show hybrid skull features which could have resulted from intermarrying between mongoloid and negroid peoples. Their rituals and traditions also bear some resemblance to the ancient rock art in Brazil.
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iwould assume dna studies might ofer some help in this. surprised not done already.

[SunkenCiv]

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