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I recently drew a map of pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the Americas for Wikimedia Commons, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic
by contingencies 9y ago
I recently drew a map of pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the Americas for Wikimedia Commons, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co... (hint: 13,000 years is not particularly old)
- madengr 9y agoInteresting that the tip of South America is older than those near Alaska. How long would it take to migrate down the entire Americas? Though I assume the first migrations were at least 25k years ago.
- eesmith 9y agoThe map is incomplete. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish_Caves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish_Caves > Bluefish Caves is an archaeological site in Yukon, Canada ... from which a specimen of allegedly human-worked mammoth bone has been radiocarbon dated to 28,000 years before present (BP), earlier than the generally accepted age for habitation of the New World ... A review of the site in 2017 found it to be 24,000 years old,[6] lending support to the "Beringian standstill" hypothesis - that the ancestors of Native Americans spent considerable time isolated in a Beringian refuge during the Last Glacial Maximum before populating the Americas".
- lazyant 9y agoThere's a theory South America was populated first by Polynesian people sailing rather than migrations from Alaska.