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38,000-year-old Human Footprints in Mexico
bornyesterday writes "The dominant theory that the earliest settlers of the American continents is that our ancestors crossed a land bridge in the Bering Strait 11,000 years ago. New evidence of human footprints in volcanic ash in Mexico suggests that humans were present 38,000 years ago."
But the bible says the world is only 6000 years old. This article is full of LIES AND DECEIT.
It goes to proove with every discovery like this, how little we know but how much we are finding out about our history.
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I remember reading a few years ago that they had evidence of African fishermen getting lost at sea and arriving in South America. I think they even had minor evidence this had occured many thousands of years before the whole land bridge thing.
Also, I remember hearing about genetic evidence that some of the tribes in S.A. had been there before the land bridge. Who was on the continent first is a big pride issue for some people. They want to say their people were around before the nomads up north, and some don't want to have descended from them.
I don't have links for any of this, so this post isn't informative... but it might be insightful.
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It's entirely possible that humans did come to the Americas 40,000 years ago.
But for how long did they survive and Are there any of their decendants left?
I think the journey mankind has done coming out of Africa and reaching all the world is fascinating. Modern theories say the African exit was crossing the the Red Sea at this point. All of us except the ones with african ancestors may descend from a bunch of brave men and women from about 200.000 years ago that decided to cross those shalow waters to find a better place to live. It is amazing adventure form that moment. Really worth a movie or an epic novel.
they weren't my ancestors you insensitive clod!
And ask the Hopi. They've been saying all along they've been here for that long. Their history fills in a lot of blanks that anthropologists appear to want left blank.
For instance, yes it's true: People came to North America across the Bering land bridge. The Hopi know because they were there. They had traveled to the far north, and met some new people coming south. For self-apparent reasons, the Hopi called these people "They who hit you with rocks" because that's all the weapons they had. These people were the Dine'/Dene', which split, leaving one group in Canada, and another moving south and becoming the Hopi's neighbors in the southwest US, the Navajo.
The Dine' word for the Hopi is Anasazi, meaning "ancient ones". The Anasazi did not die out, no matter how many national park signs tell you otherwise.
While you're visiting Hotevilla, bring along a picture of the "mysterious" Nazca Plains markings. The Hopi can tell you exactly what they mean, and which of their clans during which of their migration cycles were involved. Same for Snake Mound and many other 'artifacts' of 'Mississippian' and other hypothesized cultures.
But, I suppose the future would be bleak for anthropology if they suddenly had lots of answers -- funding would get scarce with fewer questions needing answered.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
How come the parent post is modded as troll? Didn't the moderator notice the last sentence?
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I fairly distinctly remember hearing in my Ancient History class that there was a theory that there may have been a northward migration from South America long before the crossing of the Bering Strait. So was that just a hypothesis, and now we have evidence? Or am I inventing memories? (I wouldn't be surprised. My younger brother tells stories about when I was born.)
That this was not found in the US. the local tribes would work at getting these tracks buried after a proper ceromony and prevent any further research.
Take Kennewick Man found on the shores of the columbia river. the skeleton was complete and was in unusually good condition. The presence of caucasoid traits, lack of definitive Native-American characteristics, led the original investigator, a Coroner, to assume it was a early homesteader.
However the investigator detected a stone point partially healed within the right ilium. CT scans revealed the leaf-shaped, serrated Cascade projectile point typical of Southern Plateau tribes from 8500 B.P. to 4500 B.P. So he decided to get a dna analysis and carbon date.
Wow the results came back of over 9000 years old!
Three tribes sued to have the skeleton rebuired quickly to refuse scientist the opportunity to research this unusual find. The Corp of Engineers whose land the skeleton was found on sided with the tribes. Fortunately the scientist won out and are just starting their own research sans any government funds.
She'll tell you that 1973 digs at Hueyatlco, Mexico demonstrated human habitation ca. 250ky B.C.
If there are ancestors left, they're probably living on Hokkaido. The best old genetic material is from Kennewick Man, who was most closely related to the Ainu.
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SEE!! People HAVE been sneaking into the US by way of the Mexican border for MILLENNIA!!! ;)
"Nature bats last..."
Somebody's ancestors, anyway.
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Quote from http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi1.html
"Today we know that UFO's often hide in what we call Lenticular Clouds, which are cloud formations that seem to be produced to conceal the ships from the visible eye spectrum. Real lenticular clouds move with the rest of the clouds. Whereas the UFO clouds do not - often sitting 5 hours in one place."
Yep, people pulling crap out of their asses and hurling them at innocent slashdot readers!
Hitler's in the fridge.
I guess there is also the highly improbable possibility that these were time travelers....
I always seem to wonder that every time we find evidence of a human's presence in an odd era.
The evidence usually seems to point to one or two people instead a whole civilization or even a small tribe/family.
*Shrug*
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