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History Forum / General / Archaeology / March 2008The Earliest Americans
REFERENCE http://www.friendsofpast.org/earliest-americans/ Why are the oldest archaeology sites found in South America rather than North America? > REFERENCEhttp://www.friendsofpast.org/earliest-americans/ > > Why are the oldest archaeology sites found in > South America rather than North America? Who says? http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter54/text54.htm On Mar 29, 12:12 pm, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > REFERENCEhttp://www.friendsofpast.org/earliest-americans/ > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter54/text54.htm Prof. Niède Guidon - discoverer, excavator, and centre of permanent controversy http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter54/text-PedraFurada/text-PedraFurada.htm#guidon Pedra Furada site (Piaui) - 36,000 years old - Brazil > Prof. Niède Guidon - discoverer, excavator, and centre of > permanent controversy > http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter54/text-PedraFurada/text-PedraFura... Part of the problem here is that you're an idiot. See (and I'm speaking figuratively), "Clovis" isn't a person, it isn't even so much a reference to a type of point. What it is is a reference to a culture. "Clovis culture." This would be quite a spell off from, say, individuals or even isolated groups arriving in the Americas earlier. Now I'm sure you still don't get it so I'll explain it a different way... It is entirely possible -- even likely -- that isolated individuals or even small groups had been arriving in the "new world" from the very first moments they were capable of it... which they most likely were on the order of 40,000 years ago. But.. What is important is NOT when the first of our ancestors arrived in the Americas, but when humans took root in the Americas.... culture. There came a point when, instead of marooned individuals or groups, people put down roots in the Americas, there was a population of people who viewed the Americas as home... a growing population... spreading... |
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