Archaeologist Explains Link Between Bones Found In Ethiopia, Texas

Statesman ^ | 12-22-2007 | Pamela LeBlanc

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[mnehring]

We Texans are a hearty stock. We traveled all the way from Africa and evolved on our own... and those WNs think tey are the master race, lol, they got nothing on Texans..

//its a joke, lighten up..

[Coyoteman]

For the past 70 years, most experts believed that a prehistoric culture known as Clovis, named for the New Mexico town near where remains were discovered, was the first human culture in America. The Clovis people, they said, came from Asia across the Bering Strait land bridge 11,500 years ago, walked down the ice-free corridor of Western Canada and slowly spread out across the Americas.

A minority of archaeologists has questioned this theory.

The DNA picture is getting pretty clear; there were folks along the west coast, reaching all the way to South America, who came via watercraft. They came pretty early, probably 15,000 years ago or earlier, and probably didn't extend very far inland. This left the rest of the continent unoccupied for the folks who came by foot a little later.

[razorback-bert]

bones found in Ethiopia, Texas

I thought at first, we had a new serial killer in Texas.

[Oratam]

Though not complete, Lucy does have enough pieces, especially skull bones, for scientists to predict her measurements.

Unless she's a perfect 36-24-36, I ain't interested.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Something about a beach. *sigh*
It’s the thing I miss most, living in PA now.

[wolfcreek]

My Wife tells her Yankee co-workers Texas is, has been and forever will be the *Birthplace of Creation*

[Vinnie]

The Clovis people, they said, came from Asia across the Bering Strait land bridge 11,500 years ago, walked down the ice-free corridor of Western Canada and slowly spread out across the Americas.

Just thinking..
Even with the land bridge we are looking at thousands of miles. Just getting to the 'land bridge' across Northern Siberia, then Western Alaska short summers, cold ,long winters.
The need to find food, shelter, etc.
Is that really conceivable?

[Coyoteman]

Even with the land bridge we are looking at thousands of miles. Just getting to the 'land bridge' across Northern Siberia, then Western Alaska short summers, cold ,long winters.
The need to find food, shelter, etc.
Is that really conceivable?

Yup. The latest DNA results suggest occupation of Beringia some 30,000 years ago, followed by a long period in that area prior to busting loose into the rest of North America, perhaps 15,000 years ago.

That is a long time to adapt to the cold, so traveling through Canada would have been no problem when the ice-free corridor opened up.

[cj2a]

Guilty!

[trumandogz]

Yes, it is not like they made the trip in a year but rather over a period of hundreds of years.

[Blue State Insurgent]

How do they surmise that “Lucy” was covered by soft brown fur?

[Kevmo]

bmflr

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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
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[ASA Vet]

The artist probably based the model on what he/she was told was most likely.

[Billthedrill]

Admit it, son - first thang y'all thought of lookin' at that exhibit was...

Barbecue.

[Smokin' Joe]

A professor I had in College (eons ago) postulated that humans could have walked over several times duing periods of ice advance and retreat when migration corridors would have been open, and could have been in North America as early as 32,000 years ago, no boats needed.

[pabianice]

“Native Americans” have become increasingly shrill and hysterical as the anthropological picture of Asians and Europeans arriving in the Americas first becomes ever harder to hide. Their immediate seizure and reburial of skeletons 11,000 to 22,000 years old is just one last gasp at trying to hide the truth. Today’s “Native Americans” are being revealed to have been just the last to migrate to prehistoric America, not the first.

[Blue State Insurgent]

Of course, but why was the artist instructed to do so?

[ASA Vet]

Because that’s what the paleoanthropologists believed most likely.