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."

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Re:But...

[FrontalLobe]

I've also heard of a farmer who took a bone from one of his animals that just died, said he found it burried, and the carbon-date testing came up with it being several thousand years old... Could be one of those urban legends though...

Re:just more evidence

[boarder]

In case anyone cares to read more, I dug up some links:

Skulls, boats and genocide

Multiple Migrations

Go to Hotevilla

[DynaSoar]

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.