Old American theory is 'speared'

[August]

Originally Posted by Penguin

In before the obligatory"ask Sailor Steve" joke.

I wonder whatever happened to this story, about the discovery of 40000 year old footprints in Mexico: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4650307.stm




Wouldn't the native Americans just be the descendants of the Clovis people - or from whoever set the first foot on the continent?

Not from what I understand. Europeans represent at least the 4th wave of immigrants to the new world. There may be more though.

[magicstix]

The "Out of Siberia" theory has been dead for some time. There's even very good evidence European tribes were in the Delmarva peninsula area 18000-30000 years ago.

[joegrundman]

Originally Posted by magicstix

The "Out of Siberia" theory has been dead for some time. There's even very good evidence European tribes were in the Delmarva peninsula area 18000-30000 years ago.

please to elaborate?

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

please to elaborate?

As I previously posted in another thread:
http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=2975

[Osmium Steele]

Originally Posted by magicstix

The "Out of Siberia" theory has been dead for some time. There's even very good evidence European tribes were in the Delmarva peninsula area 18000-30000 years ago.

You'll have to do better than arrowheads to convince, considering native americans carry genetic markers originating with siberian tribes.

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

You'll have to do better than arrowheads to convince, considering native americans carry genetic markers originating with siberian tribes.

No one is saying the "Native" Americans are related to Europeans. What the archaeology is saying is that European tribes visited the Americas long before the vikings, and probably before the Siberians crossed the land bridge between Alaska and Russia.

[MothBalls]

An ancient bone with a projectile point lodged within it appears to up-end - once and for all - a long-held idea of how the Americas were first populated.The rib, from a tusked beast known as a mastodon,

Makes me wonder about science and how many things they get wrong.

This is nothing more than one of Sailor Steve's' old guitar picks. He told me he lost one in the area right about that time, it looked just like the picture.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

This is nothing more than one of Sailor Steve's' old guitar picks. He told me he lost one in the area right about that time, it looked just like the picture.

So that's where that got to!

No, wait a minute...




Sorry. Not mine. Doesn't say Fender on it.

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

Makes me wonder about science and how many things they get wrong.

Science never claims to have the absolute truth, it's just the best of our knowledge at any given time based on the evidence available at that time.