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Brilliant, eye opening explanation. Thanks! Would the Hymalaian chain be considered a southern border with India, in the archeological sense?
by tomcooks 6y ago
Brilliant, eye opening explanation. Thanks! Would the Hymalaian chain be considered a southern border with India, in the archeological sense?
- User23 6y agoNot an archaeologist, just someone who reads a bit, but yes. Any effectively impassable barrier to large scale travel would qualify. For most of the time modern humans have been extant that meant the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Himalayas, and the Sahara desert to name a few really big ones. This is not to say that nobody ever crossed these barriers, they just didn't in any quantity. There are plenty of anomalous finds, like the apparently Solutrean tools found in North America that are dated 19,000 to 26,000 years ago[1]. One explanation is that it's just a coincidence, another is that a group of ancient Europeans (who by the way were probably not very related to modern Europeans) found their way to North America. My personal opinion is the most scientifically sound way to figure out these questions is genetic analysis of any skeletons that can be found in the area. However digging up American Indian grave sites for sequencing presents serious ethical considerations, to put it mildly. [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-eviden...