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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.'"
It is kind of like someone calling themself JaredOfEuropa. Names are all arbitrary and made up.
Sailing across Pacific.
I reckon they found the world's first buttplug.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
There was a young man of Chan Hol
Who went to the debutante ball
He met Naia and Eve
And said: By your leave
My stalagmite will be doing it all
Or to summarise: Young earth creationists are wrong because, God! And you can't argue with God lest you disappear in a puff of smoke.
But what would drive people with enough population to all get into the boats and just boat to the east aimlessly in hope to find a large land mass to live on?
Columbus was finding an alternate route to India to avoid Italian taxes.
The vikings were further north, where they could travel to iceland without killing themselves. Both after had arrived had then traveled back.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
...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.
Well, what difference would it make if it were yesterday?
Some theologians believe the universe is continually created, moment by moment, in the mind of God. On the other hand, some atheists believe we are living in a simulation being run in some kind of meta-universe, which is much the same thing. Every tick of the cosmic CPU clock creates a new universe according to some set of rules which use the prior universe as input. There is no logical need to have run the simulation from the postulated starting point.
From a scientific standpoint these are pointless ideas because they lead to no negatable propositions; the positivist philosophers would say they "contain no cognitive content". Except possibly not in the case of simulation. If the Cosmic Programmer is not infallible, it could in principle be possible to detect flaws in his initial conditions if he didn't start the simulation at the big bang. This would manifest itself in the realization that the universe is logically impossible as a consequence of the past.
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Using common technology from 13,000 years ago? Not so much across, as around- the current would take you North to Japan, then east across the Bering Sea, then down the coast of North America to get you to Mexico.
In other words, the current is flowing very much the wrong way for the journey you describe.
The OPPOSITE journey, from Mexico to Indonesia, however, is quite short indeed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/castaway-story-backing-from-mexican/
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