Re: 50,000 Year-Old Americans?

Hmm, I think the fact that this is in South Carolina make
this interesting. As I understand it the earliest wave of
migration to North America was about 30,000 years ago, and
was from polynesia and arrived by boat, not like the later
waves that arrived via the land bridge.

But that wave was on the west coast. I wonder if they
will find any genetic material to determine the
mitochondrial genetic linkage.

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:22:14 -0500
  Dick Fischer <dickfischer@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>
>CNN is reporting an archaeological dig in South Carolina
>that has
>discovered flint stone tools in conjunction with burned
>plant material
>radio carbon dated at 50,000 years ago.&nbsp; This would
>put the date at
>which the Americas were populated back another 30,000
>years, which would
>be before the last ice age where a land bridge across the
>Bering Strait
>was available.
>Makes the tree of human life a bit more leafy.
>Dick Fischer&nbsp; - Genesis Proclaimed Association
>Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
>www.genesisproclaimed.org
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>
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Received on Thu Nov 18 08:50:15 2004