[wildbill]

Folks, I conclude that these 70 individuals were world-class sexual athletes to produce the millions of Amerinds who sprang from their loins.

[blueunicorn6]

They were the first. I believe there were others.

[Texas Eagle]

Wow. 70 people “settled” an entire continent? Talk about elbow room.

[Texas Eagle]

How did they know where North America stopped and South America began?

Oh, yeah. Garmin.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

You are right...They even got as far as the tip of South America in a few short years.

Amazing stuff...I mean crap!!!!

Are our tax dollars being used for this “study”?

[cripplecreek]

Not all of us are willing to assume that the western hemisphere was settled once from Asia alone.

[kitchen]

ping

[Don Corleone]

Hey Prof...who settled Tierra del Fuego about the same time? Hmmm? .

[jjotto]

Jody Hey here seems to assume the originals were Asian rather than Michael Collins hypothesis of European origins.

[Jonty30]

Law of exponents ensures that people reproduce quickly.

If it was 70 people, half of them women, and each woman averaged 5 kids who could make it to adulthood, of which about half were female,..., it would only take about 500 years to go from 70 people to 50 million people.

[allmendream]

Invasive species don’t usually need to do much but what they normally do - and the cold calculus expands them exponentially over the new territory.

But yes, good times, no competition from the #1 competition humans have faced throughout their time on Earth - other humans.

[ßuddaßudd]

¿Hay sólo tres carros?

[Iron Munro]

Have the “Experts” ever been wrong yet?

/sarcasm

[Texas Eagle]

But just how many intrepid explorers were involved in spawning subsequent populations has not been known.

Oh, great. How much is it going to cost to figure that out?

[mountainlion]

So what about the study that says that the Cherokee had DNA form Hebrews, Greek and Phoenicians? How does Erik the Red fit in? How about the Vikings. How did the ancient Irish writing get in caves along the Mississippi? It seems they left a bunch of people out.

[mountainlion]

On second thought this title is really misleading. 14,000 years ago the people were nomads not settlers. My ancestors were settlers. Someone possibly wandering through a place does not mean much otherwise the moon would be ours.

[Sacajaweau]

According to my data, there were 71.

[yarddog]

I have never done any real study of the subject but American, both North and South, Indians vary as much as other races do from each other.

I have seen pictures of Peruvians who look like they could have just been transported from China. Another group from Mexico and South, look just like the stone carvings on Aztec buildings. Hugo Chavez is a good example of them.

North American Plains Indians look like the image on the buffalo nickel and unlike any other race that I know of.

Although they were probably diluted by Scotch Irish to a great degree, Cherokee tend to look a little like Peruvian Indians except they are larger and much handsomer.

[LRS]

Whole lot of knowing and begatting bump...

[B212]

March 24, 2011
Discovery in Texas suggests earlier settlers in North America
By Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The discovery of ancient stone tools at an archaeological dig in Texas could push back the presence of humans in North America, perhaps by as much as 2,500 years.
Thousands of artifacts dating to between 13,200 and 15,500 years ago were uncovered by researchers led by Michael R. Waters of Texas A&M University. They report the discovery in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.
The find was located 5 feet below materials left by the well-known Clovis culture, which was once thought to have been the first American settlers around 13,000 years ago.

http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x1796603766/Discovery-in-Texas-suggests-earlier-settlers-in-North-America

[PeteB570]

I take it that there are no Native Americans then?

Just an argument over when everyone got here.