Posted on 02/20/2006 12:01:38 AM PST by minus_273
ST. LOUIS - The first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain.
This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into the Americas was a crossing of a land-ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait about 13,500 years ago.
The new thinking was outlined here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Recent studies have suggested that the glaciers that helped form the bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska began receding around 17,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving very little chance that people walked from one continent to the other.
Also, when archaeologist Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution places American spearheads, called Clovis points, side-by-side with Siberian points, he sees a divergence of many characteristics.
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There's just one problem with trying to convince the world that the first americans were french. All the redskins in the old John Wayne westerns looked like Chinese people with long hair and suntans. Lets see ya explain that one away! Haha.
To my eye, all the 'redskins' in the old westerns looked like Tab Hunter in a wig! At least if the studios had to hire Caucasians to play Indians, they could pick someone who looks vaguely Oriental, like Charles Bronson - who I believe did play at least one Indian role.
OK, so how come they got a Swedish guy to play Charlie Chan?
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I now claim reperations from the American Indians, the Europeans, AND President Obama.
Prove me wrong.
Get out! How did you find that post two years later?! And the video. You’re a wizard.
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