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The Oldest Known Human Remains In the Americas Have Been Found In a Mexican Cave (seeker.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Seeker: An ice-free corridor between the Americas and Asia opened up about 12,500 years ago, allowing humans to cross over the Bering land bridge to settle what is now the United States and places beyond to the south. History books have conveyed that information for years to explain how the Americas were supposedly first settled by people, such as those from the Clovis culture. At least one part of the Americas was already occupied by humans before that time, however, says new research on the skeleton of a male youth found in Chan Hol cave near Tulum, Mexico. Dubbed the Young Man of Chan Hol, the remains date to 13,000 years ago, according to a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE. How he arrived at the location remains a great mystery given the timing and the fact that Mexico is well over 4,000 miles away from the Bering land crossing. For the new study, Gonzalez, Stinnesbeck, and their colleagues dated the Young Man of Chan Hol's remains by analyzing the bones' uranium, carbon, and oxygen isotopes, which were also found in stalagmite that had grown through the pelvic bone. The scientists believe that the resulting age of 13,000 years could apply to at least two other skeletons found in caves around Tulum: a teenage female named Naia and a 25-30-year-old female named Eve of Naharon. Gonzalez said that the shape of the skulls suggests that Eve and the others "have more of an affinity with people from Southeast Asia." He and his team further speculated that the individuals could have originated in Indonesia.
Everyone knows the natives are native. That's why they call them Native! This is just trying to paint them as immigrants like everyone else in North America.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I shall preempt their response and respond with "prove it's not fake news!"
Walking. What'd you expect?
So the guy is dubbed "young man of Chan Hol" (which sounds like the start of a bad limerick), but the two ladies are called Naia and Eve. Were they wearing dog tags or something?
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
You answered your own question.
Putin's dick isn't going to suck itself.
Maybe somebody should introduce him to Steve Bannon?
the dads could be any variety of us upright vertebral banana peddlers? cease fire stand down... there's moms & babys in all of our towns.. relinquishing our fake history makes the future even brighter.. thanks
Boats. It's been a known thing for a long time.
'get off me you big ape' something like that...
120000 year old remains were found in california
have a nice day
I reckon they found the world's first buttplug.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You're saying the Young Man of Chan Hol followed the same path as Obama? Born in Africa, came to the US via Indonesia?
the world is only 6000 years old and Adam was the first man!
Shoulda built a wall!
Got a laugh. Who's wasting mod points on first posts?
He might be the oldest person in the Americas, but Donald Trump still doesn't want him to enter the United States.
When I took archaeology back in the 90s Tom Dillahay found archaeological remains of humans at Monte Verde, Chile, that dated from 14k to 18.5k years ago. The archaeological orthodoxy, nicknamed The Clovis Police, all defending their dissertations, attacked him for the pre-12.5k date. Dina Dincauze was the chief of the Clovis Police, and I mention her because she went down to Monte Verde and wrote a paper saying yes, Dillahay's work is sound and there were people here that long ago. Not everyone has abandoned their original position, so you're still seeing people attacking pre-12.5k dates. But if you've been reading the material for the last 20 years then this should not come as much of a shock.
Send them back to Mexico.
Thank you,
If Hillary had won, those remains would have been found in a house in Chicago.
Everyone in the Americas is technically an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants.
No, anyone born in the Americas is a native. So while I am native to Europe my kids are native to North America. Native literally means a person associated to a place by birth and comes from the latin verb "to be born".
There is no such thing as native population.
The native population is the one born there. That is literally what native means: a person associated to a place by birth. So unless you actually believe that every pregnant woman migrates from the shores of North America back to Europe or Asia to give birth like some form of demented salmon there is quite a large native population in North America now.
...to settle what is now the United States and places beyond to the south.
I'm now curious to know whether Canada's aboriginal peoples came from somewhere else or whether knowledge of geography in the US has declined to the point that you no longer know where even Canada is.
Evidence of humans in the Americas go back further. A 14,000 year old village was found on Triquet Island, northwest of Victoria Canada. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-oldest-north-american-settlements-found-180962750/
Controversially, James M. Adovasio, Dennis Stanford and Joseph and Lynn McAvoy; and on the wilder side, Albert Goodyear and Tom Demere say there is evidence for humans in the Americas that goes back much further. Their evidence and theories are not generally accepted. Good reads though.
You provide a great insight: "This would manifest itself in the realization that the universe is logically impossible as a consequence of the past."
Of course, maybe that is what the debuggers in black are for? :-)
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Look there is no race. We are humans. There is diversity in the human Gene pool. That diversity isn't divided by skin color or ethnicity. While I would like to believe in the evils of the White race, there is no White race. There are different groups that at different times have done some horrific shit, but there is no single group. For various reasons, humans try to group themselves together for power. That is bullshit. Stop feeding the Nazi trolls, its time we destroy the White race by acknowledging there never was such a thing to begin with. White we are at it we can destroy the Black race, Asian race and whatever other fake social genetic grouping we try to create for political power.
How did they get that far down the coast?
A boat a long the coast....it's not rocket surgery.
El Coyote
Why did they need a land bridge to get to North America? I want to know how the Hawaiians got to Hawaii. If they can cross that much empty ocean (three fourths of the way across the Pacific from the west), then island hopping along the Aleutians from Japan to Seattle is child's play. Clinging to the land bridge theory is insulting, and difficult to prove. It's easier to prove the existence of sailing canoes and Hawaiians.
Words, words, words