Thanks zeestephen!
Posted on 07/12/2023 3:28:01 AM PDT by zeestephen
New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths...Scientists analyzed...pendants made of bony material from the sloths...Dating of the ornaments and sediment at the Brazil site where they were found point to an age of 25,000 to 27,000 years ago...
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"Dating of the ornaments and sediment at the Brazil site where they were found point to an age of 25,000 to 27,000 years ago..."
The good old days.
Tasted like chicken.
So that’s what happened to the megafauna, they were all turned into jewelry.
The Clovis point also proves that Europeans pre dated American indians.
I got a smile out of that Clovis point thing.Talk about upsetting a narrative, the latest being that of Ben and Jerry.
it has become obvious to me over my lifetime that the Americas were discovered by Polynesians to the south, Europeans to the North East and Asians to the North West.
These groups which arrived at different times eventually merged and mated creating the Native populations of the Americas. The North American plains indians were very different from the central and south American indians because these groups had mixed some with ancient europeans.
It is difficult for me to believe that Polynesians reached South America in sufficient numbers to make a DNA impact.
They literally had to cross thousands of miles of open ocean.
Bad luck in timing meant no rain fall for water and no migrating fish for food. Few islands meant no wood for repairs or replacement parts. I am thinking the death toll for Polynesian explorers, in a good year, was 90%.
During the glacial era, there were probably a lot more southeast Pacific islands than there are now.
On the other hand, ancient South American art does not indicate a common tradition of long distance ocean crossing.
So we stole the land from the folks who stole it from the people who were there before.
Thanks zeestephen!
Well, that explains why there are no more Giant Sloths................
The American Indians ARE Europeans.............
As z implies, the Polynesians spread out as small groups, skipping a number of atolls and such which were barely above sea level. Those tiny bits of land only had some temporary populations during the European colonial period if there was an economic reason, or a supply of fresh water and supplies for various (mostly British and French) navies -- or during the WWII yearss, and most of those were designated bird sanctuaries and whatnot after the military expediency passed.
Also, regarding the Polynesians, their arrival in Hawaii didn't happen until the late 12th century at the earliest, and a bunch of civilizations of South America had risen and fallen a bunch of times by then. The Polynesian population on Easter Island arrived sometime in the 13th century to a place already occupied by some kind of culture from South America.
Proof that the Bible is correct in saying there were giants in those days.
Who else would be big enough to wear a pendant made of a giant sloth?
Even a giant’s neck would get chafed by the cord needed to hold it up.
They were probably tasty, but even if not, they were probably easy marks.
They were SLOTHS for goodness sake! So slow even a Caveman could catch one!..................
while everything you said makes sense, the thing I keep coming back to over and over again is that the oldest human remains in the Americas have always been in South America. Which to me has always implied that the first people arrived in South America from somewhere, and the closest possible racial match is the Polynesians.
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