Cheomesh
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I was watching this neat series of shows on I think National Geographic about how the first people made it to the Americas.
The current theory was that we crossed from what is now Russia 13.5ka via the land bridge under the Bering Strait. They have, however, found footprints in I think Meso-America that dated to, IIRC, 40ka.
So they looked at some things and there are two non-exclusive theories as to why there are foot prints there of obviously human shape at such an age. One is that peoples living in Australia (who crossed from around Asia in boats) crossed in the same said boats using kelp gardens as literal "sea highways". At night, you can tie your boat to the kelp and not drift, and the kelp gardens dissipated larger waves. They would then have landed somewhere on the west coast of North America.
The other is that they crossed in boats from Europe, following the ice shelf to the eastern coast of North America. Both can be true, I guess -- it would explain some of the differences between the different native tribes in the Americas, though the show treated them as exclusive.
I just thought it was neat!
The current theory was that we crossed from what is now Russia 13.5ka via the land bridge under the Bering Strait. They have, however, found footprints in I think Meso-America that dated to, IIRC, 40ka.
So they looked at some things and there are two non-exclusive theories as to why there are foot prints there of obviously human shape at such an age. One is that peoples living in Australia (who crossed from around Asia in boats) crossed in the same said boats using kelp gardens as literal "sea highways". At night, you can tie your boat to the kelp and not drift, and the kelp gardens dissipated larger waves. They would then have landed somewhere on the west coast of North America.
The other is that they crossed in boats from Europe, following the ice shelf to the eastern coast of North America. Both can be true, I guess -- it would explain some of the differences between the different native tribes in the Americas, though the show treated them as exclusive.
I just thought it was neat!
