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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But...

[MobileMrX]

But the bible says the world is only 6000 years old. This article is full of LIES AND DECEIT.

Fascinating theory

[FedeTXF]

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.

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.

Re:Go to Hotevilla

[DynaSoar]

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".