>From: "glenn morton" <mortongr@flash.net>
>To: <asa@calvin.edu>
>Subject: America inhabited at least by 15,000 - 18000 years ago
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:25:00 -0000
>
>I have been hearing rumors of Cactus Hill for about a year now but have
>been
>unable to find much on it. This is a site in Virginia which has yielded
>evidence of habitation as early as 15,000 years ago. Reports are to be
>found at:
>http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/04/07/earlyamericans.ap/index.html
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/04/07/earlyamericans.ap/index.html
>
>If true, then it does raise the possibility that Solutreans from Europe
>were
>the first inhabitants of the New World. The tools found in some early sites
>in North America are similar to tools found in Spain about 20,000 years
>ago.
>And an mtDNA type, X, is found only in Spain and Turkey, but not in Asia!
>
>http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7special14-genes.shtml
>
On that thought it's interesting that there seems to be a cross-Atlantic
connection for this time period. A fascinating book that I read is Mary
Stettegast's [1990] "Plato, Prehistorian" which examines the archaeological
evidence from the time period that Plato gives for "Atlantis" and the
Atlanto-Athenian war [c.10,500 - 7,500 BC]... some interesting correlations
are found including evidence of a broad-ranging European culture, as well as
the Tanged-Point Technocomplex that suggests war in that period [as well as
Fortress Jericho from c. 8000 BC.]
Plato actually mentions the Americas in his description of the Atlantean
Empire... hmmm...
Kind of off-base for the ASA list but I found the parallels between Plato's
war and "and the Earth was filled with violence" of Genesis to be
interesting. Both eras ended with a Flood.
Adam
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