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Did first Americans come from Europe?
By Bjorn Carey
MSNBC/Live Science
updated 7:46 p.m. MT, Sun., Feb. 19, 2006
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.
Full Article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11451616/)
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American Indians, especially on the East Coast tend to look less Asian. It would not surprise me if American Indians did come from Europe. Basques live in France and Spain and they could be Cro-Magnon man. I tend to believe the first Americans came around 50,000 years ago from the south.
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I don't necessarily agree, though almost anything is possible in dealing with the wanderings of people in search of new food sources and lands, but I do have to say I have always found the Siberian land bridge hypothesis to be logically challenging. While lower ocean levels caused by a full-on Ice Age would have dropped the sea level, the other side of that is that there would have been a mile-high ice shield blocking the way on most of it. There would have been some coastal travel in small craft, fishing, whaling and sealing, and settlements would probably have been made in small clear coastal alcoves possible resulting in a remnant population stranded on the North American side when the sea levels rose again, but the whole idea of a frickin' grassy highway paved with mastodon burgers just strikes me as flying in the face of the whole basic issue of the ice shield.
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They did find similar Clovis points in the eastern US, in the Savannah River area, and in France.
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They did find similar Clovis points in the eastern US, in the Savannah River area, and in France.
They have also found some evidence of pre-Clovis people at Cactus Hill in Virginia.
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Bunnies pre-date all y'all, so git off'n my land!
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Bunnies pre-date all y'all, so git off'n my land!
"Die Hase schmeckt ganz gut, gebackt oder gebraten."
:drool:
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Menschen schmecken wie Hühnchen.
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Menschen schmecken wie Hühnchen.
Das wuerde ich nicht kennen, ich lecke Maenner nie.
:tongue:
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Bunnies pre-date all y'all, so git off'n my land!
Ptarmigans pre-dated bunnies. Bunnies took it from ptarmigans in the Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War. So off my land!
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Ptarmigans pre-dated bunnies. Bunnies took it from ptarmigans in the Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War. So off my land!
You have no land.
You have a roasting spit.
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You have no land.
You have a roasting spit.
God is awaiting with a giant flamethrower.