12,000 Year-Old Skeleton to Further Study of American Natives

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by nightbird47

That should always be remembered about archology and anthropology.

Except now we are adding genetics into the mix which means that three disparate disciplines all point in the same direction.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by sargentodiaz

Once again, Discover Online...

...is not science.

Originally Posted by sargentodiaz

... comes up with an interesting article on the history of our two continents – we often forget South America. Remains found in a huge cavern in the Yucatan may uncover more secrets and confirm that all came from the same stock that crossed the Bering Sea.

Not possible and 12,000 years is nothing.

Originally Posted by ovcatto

Further Clovis sites have been found from Alaska to Chile where the Monte Verde site has been dated as 13,500 years ago which is about 1,000 years earlier than any recorded site on the eastern coast.

A site in northern Chile is 35,000 years old. They are of Negroid stock, probably Melanesian, Micronesia or Aboriginal Australian....they sailed from that region to northern Chile.

A female skeleton in Brasil is 25,000 old.....that is the oldest known skeleton in the Americas (North and South).

She is Negroid. There are two possibilities: she is descended of those who came to Chile --- they sailed around and up to the Amazon; or she came from Africa.

Originally Posted by JimRom

Too much of history is based on "accepted" findings, and I think that leads to bad scholarship. We, none of us, know how humans got to this continent. Archeology is a field of educated guesses, and those guesses can turn out to be wrong - as has been proven multiple times.

Yes, indeed.

And then there's Kennewick Man....he's European.

Fortunately, those with preconceived ideas about human development are dying off....they just aren't dying off fast enough.

Archaeologically...

Mircea

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by Mircea

She is Negroid. There are two possibilities: she is descended of those who came to Chile --- they sailed around and up to the Amazon; or she came from Africa.

Oh, for god's sake

The only two possibilities would be, less than slim and none.

[kovert]

Based on my own research, its may perhaps be a wiser to look towards the former USSR region up to and including Northeastern Asia (Siberia to Japan) for clues to the source regions for migrations into the Americas.

Some of these migrants may have been of a stock related to the Upper Paleolithic tool makers of western Europe.