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Interesting 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 fir
by madengr 9y ago
Interesting 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.