When Did Humans Come to the Americas?

Smithsonian Mag ^ | Feb 2013 | Guy Gugliotta

[Theoria]

first. nice summary and pics.

[Theoria]

[QBFimi]

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[dr_lew]

The point is, the Clovis culture marked the peopling of North America on a scale beyond anything preceding it. It was an “explosion”, and findings of earlier incursions, whatever their merit, do nothing to diminish this fact.

[JimSEA]

Thanks for an excellent and thought provoking article.

[Vigilantcitizen]

For later read...Sweetwater creek petroglyph.

[One Name]

As an “old earth creationist”, I am not surprised.

As a dispensationalist, I am not surprised.

As a lay historian, I am intrigued.

[Varda]

bttt

[Cronos]

The tricky part is that in 20,000 BC, there were no modern "Europeans" -- the Indo-Europeans only came across in 2000 BC to Europe from either Central Asia or the area between the Caspian and Black seas

I don't think there were even the Basque-Georgian peoples there at that point in time.

[Poison Pill]

The Solutreans, whose territory on the European continent was apparently rather compact, may have been forced by encroaching glaciers and extreme cold to cluster on the Atlantic coast. At some point, Stanford and Bradley say, the stresses of overpopulation may have forced some Solutreans to escape by sea. They headed north and west beneath the Atlantic ice sheet to nudge into North America at the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.

Can I open a casino and sell tax free smokes?

[S.O.S121.500]

Can I open a casino and sell tax free smokes?
++++++++++++
Liberty and Justice for ALL.

[Jack Hammer]

There are humans in America?

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

My money is presently with Dennis Sanford's theory.

Regardless:(Posted to FR in 2001)

Calico: A 200,000-year Old Site In The Americas?

[blam]

From the Windover Bog Site in Florida.

"Although scientists believed they had retrieved DNA from the fairly intact brain matter recovered from some of the human burials, subsequent research has shown that the mtDNA lineages reported are absent in all other prehistoric and contemporary Native American populations studied to date. Further attempts to retrieve more DNA have failed, and an amplification study has shown that there is no analyzable DNA left in the Windover burials. "

This concurs with the assessment of Bryan Sykes (in his latest book) that the DNA is not Native American and likely European. (Or something close to that

Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)

These people used looms to make their clothing.

[morphing libertarian]

bookmark

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam. There’s some additional articles about PreClovis linked off this one on the original site.

[blam]

Aurignacian

The Aurignacian culture (pron.: /ɔrɪɡˈneɪʃən/ or /ɔrɪnˈjeɪʃən/) is an archaeological culture of the Upper Palaeolithic, located in Europe and southwest Asia. It lasted broadly within the period from ca. 45,000 to 35,000 years ago (about 37,000 to 27,000 years ago on the uncalibrated radiocarbon timescale; between ca. 47,000 and 41,000 years ago using the most recent calibration of the radiocarbon timescale[1]). The name originates from the type site of Aurignac in the Haute-Garonne area of France.

The oldest known example of figurative art, the Venus of Hohle Fels, comes from this culture. It was discovered in September 2008 in a cave at Schelklingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

(snip)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for this additional new link (which we can’t quote from), Renfield!

New evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered America
David Keys
Tuesday 28 February 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article7447327.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/Pg-8-stone1.jpg
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html