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The First Americans Didn't Arrive by the Bering Land Bridge, Study Says
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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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To: BenLurkin

Everyone knows the first Americans came over on the Mayflower.


21 posted on 12/24/2016 9:58:10 AM PST by SSS Two
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To: BenLurkin

People spread throughout the Paciifc islands without benefit of a land bridge. Given how small those islands are, it makes sense that some (or most) of this migration would have missed the islands and ended up on the west coast of the American continents.


22 posted on 12/24/2016 9:59:18 AM PST by Stingray51
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To: patro

“Fossilized feces”

When I cast my eyes on those words the first thing
that came into my mind was ‘Harry Reid’.


23 posted on 12/24/2016 10:03:05 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html

It’s also possible the “first Americans” were from Europe and not Asia...”Scientific evidence suggests...”


24 posted on 12/24/2016 10:05:20 AM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: BenLurkin

SUV’s


25 posted on 12/24/2016 10:09:05 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Excellent


26 posted on 12/24/2016 10:09:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PLMerite

Beat me to it! Good call!


27 posted on 12/24/2016 10:10:31 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Stingray51

Oh, I see that you are just another Alaskan trying
to shirk responsibility for providing a conduit for
illegal immigrants for all of these thousands of
years.


28 posted on 12/24/2016 10:11:54 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought they drove there?


29 posted on 12/24/2016 10:12:40 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: Leep

“1491.”


30 posted on 12/24/2016 10:19:16 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: TexasGator

That is what a crap fest looks like.


31 posted on 12/24/2016 10:19:24 AM PST by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: Sivad

LOL


32 posted on 12/24/2016 10:19:46 AM PST by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: BenLurkin

Im still going with descendants from Lemuria (the Shasta people ), space ship drop offs or Kon Tiki


33 posted on 12/24/2016 10:20:20 AM PST by jcon40
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To: BenLurkin

Evolution says everyone came from African monkeys.

Creation says everyone came from God, who gave each of us a soul.

I’m going with the God explanation.


34 posted on 12/24/2016 10:35:53 AM PST by abclily
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To: BenLurkin; Larry Lucido

I see what you did there...


35 posted on 12/24/2016 10:36:19 AM PST by Does so ("The Business of America is Business"--President Calvin Coolidge...)
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To: MNnice

Not when fossil evidence says people where in North America 2500 years BEFORE the passage opened.


36 posted on 12/24/2016 10:37:07 AM PST by tbw2
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To: BenLurkin
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.

People were here before plants or animals?
37 posted on 12/24/2016 10:39:01 AM PST by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: SkyPilot

Very good! My thoughts exactly!


38 posted on 12/24/2016 11:00:15 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: BenLurkin
You don't need a land bridge to cross the Bering Strait. During the Soviet years, the Russians would house a detail on their side of the Strait to keep Russian Inuits (Eskimos) from crossing the ice to visit family members in Alaska, and keep Alaskan Inuits from visiting. My understanding that the current Russian government has renewed the practice.

So, for however many millennia you didn't have Soviets or the current regime, you only needed to wait for winter to cross.

Of course, that bit of knowledge would play hob with many tenured professor-ships, published papers, books, and lecture-circuit presentations as well as scholarly lectures, would it?
39 posted on 12/24/2016 11:00:30 AM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies as a warning--take scalps.)
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To: BenLurkin

No one has absolutely any proof of how the Americas were first settled. It’s all pure speculation.


40 posted on 12/24/2016 11:22:01 AM PST by redfreedom
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