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originally posted by: sarahvital
toba volcano blew 70 K ya, maybe they had to move or die?
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
In Boats Following the Coastlines from Siberia to Alaska , then down along the California Coast . This has been Well Documented , I am Surprised you are Not Aware of It ........
Not 30k years ago, and not 50k like some here are suggesting. I'm also going to suggest not during the middle of the ice age either as they started to see that type of travel 15k to 10k ago.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
I find it funny when people assume that nobody before the polenysians could have possibly sailed or rowed across the pacific before them.
Its 100% possible that someone did, its also 100% possible there was some distant ancestor that survived over here for thousands of years before dying out.
If this is the first report on it then more data should follow and anyone who claims to think critically will admit its possible and ill decide when more data arrives to review.
originally posted by: sarahvital
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
In Boats Following the Coastlines from Siberia to Alaska , then down along the California Coast . This has been Well Documented , I am Surprised you are Not Aware of It ........
Not 30k years ago, and not 50k like some here are suggesting. I'm also going to suggest not during the middle of the ioce age as he started to see that type of travel 15k to 10k ago.
toba volcano blew 70 K ya, maybe they had to move or die?
This site preserves 131,000-year-old hammerstones, stone anvils, and fragmentary remains — bones, tusks and molars — of a mastodon (Mammut americanum) that show evidence of modification by early humans.
The researchers revealed a wealth of evidence rarely found in one place. It includes fossils with blunt-force fractures, bone flake knives with worn edges, and signs of controlled fire. And thanks to carbon dating analysis on collagen extracted from the mammoth bones, the site also comes with a settled age of 36,250 to 38,900 years old, making it among the oldest known sites left behind by ancient humans in North America.
Two Sides Of The Same Genetic Problem
While the first study concentrated on North American genes the second focused on Asian genetic lineages. Also published in Nature, this project had its research team retrieving “genetic samples from the remains of 34 individuals in Siberia, dated between “600 to 31,600 years old.” In this study, a discovery that stood out was made in the DNA of a Siberian individual who died about 10,000 years ago. It contained what the paper says is a “genetic resemblance to Native Americans, more so than any other remains found outside of the Americas.”
Led by David Meltzer, an anthropologist at Southern Methodist University, who coauthored the new study, the researchers in this second paper suggest that during the about 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, during the ‘Last Glacial Maximum’ changing environmental conditions forced about “500 or so Ancient North Siberians” to travel from southern Beringia with folk migrating from East Asia. This mixed nomadic population would give rise to both the lineages that dispersed through Siberia and the first Peoples of North America.
Early footsteps in the Americas Despite a plethora of archaeological research over the past century, the timing of human migration into the Americas is still far from resolved. In a study of exposed outcrops of Lake Otero in White Sands National Park in New Mexico, Bennett et al. reveal numerous human footprints dating to about 23,000 to 21,000 years ago. These finds indicate the presence of humans in North America for approximately two millennia during the Last Glacial Maximum south of the migratory barrier created by the ice sheets to the north. This timing coincided with a Northern Hemispheric abrupt warming event, Dansgaard-Oeschger event 2, which drew down lake levels and allowed humans and megafauna to walk on newly exposed surfaces, creating tracks that became preserved in the geologic record. —AMS
The first group comprises a few long bones which, after having been split lengthwise, may have been used as fleshers for processing hides. One in particular, shaped from a caribou tibia, exhibits a planed facet which may have been made with a burin, as well as a highly polished area located along the edge of a distal break (possibly the result of use ?) (Morlan and Cinq-Mars 1982: Fig.9). This object was discovered outside Cave II, in the lower level of the loess. It has been dated to 24,820 BP, giving us a clearer picture of the chronological range not only of the deposit, but also of its cultural manifestations. In other words, we believe that we can add this tool to a growing list of data which, while sparse, demonstrates that human populations were in a position to exploit the resources of the region during the Glacial Maximum or even earlier.
The genomes show the three oldest modern humans at Bacho Kiro were distantly related to a 40,000-year-old partial skeleton from Tianyuan in China, as well as to other ancient and living East Asians and Native Americans. That suggests they all descended from an early population that once spread across Eurasia, but whose descendants in Europe seem to have died out. The lineage survived in Asia, later giving rise to people who migrated to America.
originally posted by: sarahvital
australia and that area to easter island to chile and peru. then north.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: sarahvital
toba volcano blew 70 K ya, maybe they had to move or die?
To Mexico?
originally posted by: Dalamax
Aliens? Next it will be zombies....
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: sarahvital
australia and that area to easter island to chile and peru. then north.
But that isn't how it happened, is it. Easter island is still 2000 miles of nothing from SA. A cutout tree, or raft was all we had. This is like 8000 BC and around the area of where Vikings started, so a long way from Australia. Now you want to talk 30,000, or 50,000 years?
Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Dalamax
It appears the evidence may contradict your assumptions.
This evidence...lol Give me a break...
"Cartel drug cave pushes American habitation back to 30,000 years." Wow! I guess your are right...
originally posted by: Dalamax
Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion, or to develop one.
You have got nothing to add beyond pointing out the improbable chances.