Posted on 12/22/2004 6:09:11 PM PST by bruinbirdman
There's no reason that people could not have come to the Americas from all over the world. We aren't limited to just one migration source.
GGG non-ping. ;')First American civilisation sprang up fastIn less than 150 years, people went "from small hunter-gatherer bands to great big permanent communities with monumental architectures," says Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum in Chicago, US, whose group carbon-dated samples from 13 of more than 20 sites in the Norte Chico region. The ancient South American culture began building massive stone structures about the same time Egyptians built their first large step-pyramids. Yet their culture followed a different pattern. They lacked pottery, which preceded stone monuments in the Middle East. They also lacked writing, art and sculpture... The Norte Chico civilisation differs from all other early [known] civilisations in being based on marine resources rather than the cultivation of grains, says Winifred Creamer at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, US, Haas's wife and colleague. Their study reveals new complexity, with sites along the rivers growing squash, beans and avocados, and irrigating fields to grow cotton, which they exchanged for fish from the coast... [T]he civilisation thrived for 1200 years, expanding to include more settlements in a zone of about 1500 square kilometres, but retaining its distinctive reliance on the sea and non-grain crops. Change arrived in about 2000 BC, with the large mounds disappearing and cultivation shifting toward corn. The centres of the evolving Andean culture moved into the larger valleys to the north and south, which offered more room for cultivation, and little was built in Norte Chico for thousands of years.
by Jeff Hecht
22 December 2004
NewScientist
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well said.
interesting post.
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