[muawiyah]

Where did the boats come from, or the people? The people are from various places in the Old World. No doubt there were whites, blacks and others.

The Land Bridge hypothesis says that everybody had to come overland to America. This begs the question about how Australian natives got here since they'd have had to have sailed 75% of the distance and then abandoned their boats to walk that last few 4000 miles to Baja.

Actually, it's totally ridiculous to even suggest that the earliest settlers of the Americans forgot to bring their boats!

[U S Army EOD]

The people not the boats. I think there was a land bridge plus North African influence in Central America. The reason for the land bridge theory is because Eskimos in Alaska are related to ones is Siberia. They actually physically know each other. You can see Russia from Alaska. During an Ice Age the ocean would be low and it would be very easy to walk across. They had probably already done it a few times in small boats.

There were some Western tribes that built large ocean going fishing vessels that rivaled the Viking long ships. I think this is the crowd my uncle stayed with when he was on the West Coast. They had been using the sea for 100's of years to fish in. But they did not know how to sail against the wind.

[indcons]

Australia was probably populated by people crossing over from SE Asia through a land brisge during low-tide. After all, we know sea levels keep fluctuating pver time.

Again, if the Australian Aborgines used boats, why/how did they lose such a powerful technology? After all, these people were still living in the stone age when Jayavarma was building the architectural masterpieces in Cambodia and Indonesia, which were only a few miles away by boat.