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The First Americans Didn't Arrive by the Bering Land Bridge, Study Says
mentalfloss.com ^

Posted on 12/24/2016 9:29:43 AM PST by BenLurkin

University of Copenhagen researchers Eske Willerslev, Mikkel Pedersen, and their colleagues found that this harsh route only became viable for human migration 12,600 years ago—when the first plants and animals showed up in the region. Meanwhile, archaeologists have ample evidence that people were living in the Americas long before then.

“We know conclusively that human groups were in the interior before that date—perhaps as early as 15,000 calibrated radiocarbon years before present—so it is highly unlikely that they came south through the corridor,” said Michael O’Brien, an anthropologist and current academic vice president of Texas A&M University–San Antonio, who wasn’t involved in the study. “A more likely scenario is that they came south along the Pacific coast.”

For the study, Pedersen and colleagues drilled sediment cores from beneath the frozen surface of two lakes in western Canada: Charlie Lake and Spring Lake. These were among the last areas to lose their ice cover when the two huge ice sheets that blanketed the region (the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets) split during the end of the last glacial maximum, around 15,000 years ago. The retreating ice opened up a path some 1500 kilometers long into the interior of North America.

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The results of the study suggest the route was only usable between 12,600 and 10,000 years ago. This narrow window is too late to match with the once-prevailing “Clovis First” hypothesis...

Recently, several before-Clovis sites have been discovered in the Americas. Fossilized feces more than 14,000 years old have been found in Oregon’s Paisley Caves. Stone tools alongside mastodon bones in Florida were recently found to be 14,550 years old. And much further away from northwestern Canada, in southern Chile, humans inhabited Monte Verde at least 14,000 years ago (and possibly even earlier).

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: clovissites; gadsgravesglyphs; northamerica; origins
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1 posted on 12/24/2016 9:29:43 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

There apparently was more than one wave of settlers.


2 posted on 12/24/2016 9:34:06 AM PST by marron
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To: BenLurkin

Concorde?


3 posted on 12/24/2016 9:37:31 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: BenLurkin

Has anyone asked Brian Williams? I’m sure he was there when they arrived.


4 posted on 12/24/2016 9:38:32 AM PST by laweeks
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To: BenLurkin

So you’re telling me that the frozen human dookie from 14,000 years ago are the missing pieces to the puzzle?


5 posted on 12/24/2016 9:41:33 AM PST by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: BenLurkin
Well, duh. It was an ice bridge.

Sakes alive.

6 posted on 12/24/2016 9:43:29 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: BenLurkin

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:25

7 posted on 12/24/2016 9:46:02 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: BenLurkin
Fossilized feces

Great name for a rock band.

Stone tools alongside mastodon bones

Close runner up.

8 posted on 12/24/2016 9:46:39 AM PST by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: BenLurkin

Imo, the usual suspects wont have a real clue until underwater archeology starts working the old ice age coastlines approx 2-300 feet below current sea levels.


9 posted on 12/24/2016 9:46:48 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: BenLurkin

“Fossilized feces “

Ossified offals?


10 posted on 12/24/2016 9:47:36 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: BenLurkin

Try to imagine your local environs 14,000 years ago.

Where I live, life would have been fat and relatively easy.

But places like Minot and Prince Albert Sas...not so much.

Large animals and their hides and meat defined survival. And the ability to chip stone and preserve fire.


11 posted on 12/24/2016 9:47:51 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: patro
"So you’re telling me that the frozen human dookie from 14,000 years ago are the missing pieces to the puzzle?"

ONE Piece!


12 posted on 12/24/2016 9:48:41 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: Texas Eagle

There is evidence of humans in North America 50K years ago.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm


13 posted on 12/24/2016 9:48:55 AM PST by zek157
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To: BenLurkin

“The results of the study suggest the route was only usable between 12,600 and 10,000 years ago. This narrow window is too late to match with the once-prevailing “Clovis First” hypothesis”

2,600 years is a “narrow window?”


14 posted on 12/24/2016 9:49:56 AM PST by MNnice
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Wherever the herds roamed, you could as well. And with relative security.


15 posted on 12/24/2016 9:50:55 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Coprolites.


16 posted on 12/24/2016 9:52:36 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: MNnice

Yeah. They were tired and walked very slow.


17 posted on 12/24/2016 9:53:09 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: SkyPilot

That is very interesting. I wonder why it would have happened so many years after the flood?


18 posted on 12/24/2016 9:55:11 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s because they couldn’t keep their bearings straight.


19 posted on 12/24/2016 9:57:20 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

Their theory is full of holes. Even if the land bridge was a wasteland I am sure that there was plenty to eat in the rivers, wetlands, and the ocean shore. There would have been plenty of seals, seabirds, seaweed, shellfish, and fish. It distance today between Russia and Alaska is roughly 60 miles which can be hiked in no more than 2 days if you are in hurry. Don’t even get me started about boats - ancient people had them and therefor did not even need a land bridge.

FAKE NEWS and sh*t science.


20 posted on 12/24/2016 9:57:20 AM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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