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38,000-year-old Human Footprints in Mexico

Posted by timothy on from the too-early-for-good-mexican-food dept.

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."

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  1. I love this stuff by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  2. Re:But... by Gherald · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or vice-versa.

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  3. just more evidence by boarder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  4. But who survived? by mc6809e · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

  5. Re:Go to Hotevilla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    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.

    This sounds really really interesting. Could you give some details, or references?