Date Limit Set On First Americans

BBC ^ | 7-22-2003 | Paul Rincon

[blam]

I notice they didn't mention one word about the dental study don ASU professor Christy Turner. It shows a distinct difference.

[blam]

Spirit Cave Man is the oldest, 9,400 years old, mummy ever found in the Americas, he died in his mid-40's in a cave in Nevada.

[agitator]

looks like they're talking about this guy

[muawiyah]

Why do they keep saying "swamped" when "eaten" is probably more appropriate.

[Pharmboy]

mtDNA is much more reliable than looking at bones or their fossils. I remember posting an article a while back that seemed to prove a Euro origin for the lake Indians. I'm sure you were on that thread. I will have to withold my judgement...

[Monty22]

"The scientists knew that determining when mutations occurred on haplotype 10 might reveal a date for the first entry of people into America. "

And that sentence would fit freakishly well into any Star Trek episode..

[FastCoyote]

There's not just Monte Verde, there's also a Brazilian site I believe.

[Publius6961]

I notice they didn't mention one word about the dental study don ASU professor Christy Turner. It shows a distinct difference..

Also I notice that there is no mention of the "African Eve" DNA fiasco.
For whatever reason, these Einsteins just won't give up.

I believe the true picture will emerge only long after the PC BS is long gone and buried; Including the "noble savage" we-copied-out-constitution-from-stone-age-savage-cannibals delusional mindless extrapolations.

[Tribune7]

Captain Picard was the first American!!!!????

[blam]

"There's not just Monte Verde, there's also a Brazilian site I believe."

Yes, there are a number of other older sites. You're probably talking about Pedra Furada 32,000-48,000 years old in Brazil.

[Alas Babylon!]

But Dr Wells acknowledged the possibility that even more ancient American populations carrying unidentified Y chromosome haplotypes could have been swamped by later migrations, resulting in their genetic legacy being erased.

There's your answer! Otherwise, all the latest discoveries; Spirit Cave, Topper, Monte Verde, Big Eddy, Meadow Cave, etc, are all wrong on their dates.

[EggsAckley]

BUMP!


I LOVE these articles you post! Bookmarking for later reading.

[longtermmemmory]

The PC police are desperate to damage the real science of these bones. This seems more an effort to protect indian casinos than to find out if the North American continent was a little more diverse than the PC nazis would like.

[jocon307]

"Spirit Cave, Topper, Monte Verde, Big Eddy, Meadow Cave"

Sounds like part of tomorrow's line at Belmont! My pick of the day: Topper! (of course!)

[blam]

"There's your answer! Otherwise, all the latest discoveries; Spirit Cave, Topper, Monte Verde, Big Eddy, Meadow Cave, etc, are all wrong on their dates."

Yup, you get it.

I haven't read anything about the Topper site for a couple years now.

[Alas Babylon!]

New theory on the peopling of America from Europe (Clovis --Solutrean link)! Click here! (new article in Mammoth Trumpet)

[Ahban]

Oh Wait, I'm getting a concept here....Star Trek episode....Picard must go back in time to stop the Borg.....winds up in N. America 10K years ago...stops the Borg but is killed in the process...bones become Spirit Cave Man.....Enterprise retreves the fossils, and extracts DNA to make new Picard, then implants clone with all his memories, which were saved in Cmdr. Data's memory banks before the mission....


I'll shut up now.

[blam]

The Topper Site: Pre-Clovis Suprise.

[blam]

"New theory on the peopling of America from Europe (Clovis --Solutrean link)! Click here! (new article in Mammoth Trumpet)"

Good Article. These (Solutreans) seems to be the folks linked with the Topper site, (and others) on the east coast of the US.

[Reverend Bob]

Sure! Didn't you see Star Trek XV?