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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."
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.
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.
Parent poster misspoke. The Bible implies the age of the Earth is about 6000 years, and our friend James Ussher worked it out that the Earth was created the evening before October 23, 4004 B.C. So stop blaspheming, you filthy heathen, lest I strike you down in the name of our peace-preaching Lord.
A good web site for summaries: http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi1.html
Several pages, put together from various sources. Contains a well known talk about an elder from another nation that had traveled to other continents to verify some of the Hopi claims that specific peoples elsewhere started out with the Hopi and had similar cultural bases. That's the "stone tablets" talk. The site isn't the most cleanly arranged so you may have to poke around.
[You'll notice that some of the people who speak authoritatively about and/or for the Hopi are not Hopi. They know this. They often choose them. You'll also find people doing so who are not chosen or even reasonably educated by them. Much of the Wiki entries reflect this.]
The best book is: "Waters, Frank, 1963, Book of the Hopi : The First Revelation Of The Hopi's Historical And Religious Worldview Of Life, Penguin Books, NY, 346 P. THE definitive book concerning the Hopi. Long viewed as the standard work on the tribe, although warnings have been given that the book does contain some outright errors, and things have changed in Hopiland since the book was published. Includes discussion of the religion and myths of the tribe, along with a detailed history. Frank Waters received five nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature."
[Waters is one of those chosen. As for 'outright errors', trust me, you talk to different elders from any tribe, and some of them are going to tell you that some of the things other say is 'wrong'. Not so different here. You'll also find some of the material in the "recent" prophecies was the same 100 years ago, prior to those things happening which were subsequently 'recognized' as having been what was prophesized.]
I can't find much on the web about the Nazca symbols beyond a single quote by one elder who recognized the symbols. What it claims he said is not what I heard, and it appears to me someone is taking advantage of the case to promote their own agenda. I do know that it was two anthropologists (one from Cornell, IIRC) that approached them. There are similar figures in the Four Corners region, made the same way, referenced in "Archeology of Arizona".
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