Re: 50,000 Year-Old Americans?

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:49:38 -0600 <drsyme@cablespeed.com> writes:
> 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.
>
>
I suggest one emendation. At
http://www.unl.edu/rhames/monte_verde/MonteVerde.htm I found a single
comment that there probably were no Polynesians at the time (~12,500
B.C.) of the Monte Verde, Chile, site. It does appear that these early
people came along the western coast of the Americas. That they apparently
were near the east coast of North America earlier is inetesting.
Dave
Received on Thu Nov 18 14:14:17 2004