New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
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Re: New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
#2There's a lot of Sasquatch stories among Native Americans.
Homo Floresiensis overlaps with the Ebu Gogo myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebu_gogo
Re: New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
#3It's only 50 miles by sea from Eurasia to the Americas. People got to Australia around 40,000–60,000 years ago by boat so it seems unlikely that people needed a land bridge to get to the Americas.
Remember, the globe also looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo#/media/File:Inuit_conf_...
PS: I suspect the Americas where well known in the 1700's, but nobody was talking to the Russian Far East when map making.
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#4You can count me firmly in the skeptics category. However, it is interesting, and human beings have been around a long time. It would be a bit surprising if no one ever made it to the Americas until "recent" times.
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#5For a skeptical point of view, see the second half of Jared Diamond's article: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27111
Re: New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
#6You can count me firmly in the skeptics category. However, it is interesting, and human beings have been around a long time. It would be a bit surprising if no one ever made it to the Americas until "recent" times.
I'm skeptical of this finding however it seems ludicrous to mean that scientists accept on its face that humans reached Australia like 50000 years ago, crossing over 55 miles of water but a 50-mile wide Bering Strait would pose huge problems.
Re: New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
#7For a skeptical point of view, see the second half of Jared Diamond's article: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27111
Or they are like the Norsemen-sure they made it early, but with 100,000 missing years of continuous habitation until Clovis, et al, they died out and didn't contribute anything.
Re: New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
#8For a skeptical point of view, see the second half of Jared Diamond's article: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27111
Or they are like the Norsemen-sure they made it early, but with 100,000 missing years of continuous habitation until Clovis, et al, they died out and didn't contribute anything.
The Norseman had one small colony that was attacked by people already inhabiting North America. They settled the Eastern tip of Canada then departed. These people, if they existed, would have colonized all the way from Western Alaska to California, meaning they would have had numerous settlements, and in an uninhabited continent.
Re: New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
#9It's only 50 miles by sea from Eurasia to the Americas. People got to Australia around 40,000–60,000 years ago by boat so it seems unlikely that people needed a land bridge to get to the Americas. Remember, the globe also looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo#/media/File:Inuit_conf_... PS: I suspect the Americas where well known in the 1700's, but nobody was talking to the Russian Far East when map ma…
Buckminster Fuller made a similar point with one of his dymaxion projections: https://telemachusunedited.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/lowpp...
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#10I think it was Nova a while back that suggested that clovis technology came from a stone age french tribe, and that there were traces of them in the genes of eastern native americans.