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November 19, 2015
Evidence shows earliest Americans arrived 6,000 years earlier than believed
by Susanna Pilny
New evidence uncovered at the Monte Verde site in southern Chile has now provided further evidence that the earliest known Americans became established in South America even earlier than previously thought.
For many decades, it was believed that the Americas were first populated some 13,000 years ago by big-game hunters from Asia, known as the Clovis people. Evidence of their culture was especially apparent in their distinctly-shaped, pointed stone projectiles, known as Clovis points. However, in more recent decades, the Monte Verde site in Chile revealed that, in fact, some American human populations pre-dated the arrival of the Clovis people.
The evidence found there pushed back the 13,000-year estimation another 1,500 years, when the remains of settlements that used a different kind of stone tool technology were discovered at a Monte Verde site known as MVII. Further evidence at another nearby location, known as MVI, yielded then-inconclusive evidence that indicated the advent of humans was even younger.
Now, archaeologists from Vanderbilt University have taken another look at Monte Verde, in an attempt to find new insights and data on the mysterious humans who passed throughand theyve already made some new discoveries, according to their paper in PLOS ONE.
Read more at http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113410891/evidence-shows-earliest-americans-arrived-6000-years-earlier-than-believed-111915/#Ohib9IrhTLcG0oxf.99
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Danmel
(4,918 posts)Has anyone told Dr. Carson?
Beartracks
(12,820 posts)... of, uh... Oh. Hmmm......
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truedelphi
(32,324 posts)And thank you for the laugh!
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)The date keeps being moved back and maybe moved back further as we move along.
The 6000 year crowd is delusional. It is provably wrong but that doesn't stop them, they are crazy.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)I live in an area where the Pomo Indians were suspected of having settled in the region during a 10,000 to 13,000 years ago bench mark.
Will be interested in finding out how this all shakes out.
Side Note: People report seeing processions of extremely tall ghostly figures coming down Lake County Calif highways at night. My spouse and I heard chanting in the side pasture above our house the first week we lived here. (No one was there when we went out with flashlights and searched.) Of course, this region is also known for growing the largest and most economically successful crop in all of North America, so I don't know if we will ever know if there are ghost remnants of the Ancient Ones, or these things are an effect of the whacky tobbaccy!)
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)boat travel around 20,000 years ago and they landed right about in that area. The only thing I am not sure of is if they came from the Altai Mountains and traveled south (several hundred years) and then eventually went by the sea route to Chili or if they were from the Polynesian Islands.