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I'm all for accepting evidence when it's there. I do believe humans have been highly mobile for our entire history. Hell, the ancestors of Aboriginal Australian
by TSiege 4y ago
I'm all for accepting evidence when it's there. I do believe humans have been highly mobile for our entire history. Hell, the ancestors of Aboriginal Australians migrated to both Australia and Madagascar, proven by the fact that Madagascans are genetically much more closely related to Aboriginal Australians than Africans. The debunking of these glyphs are quite thorough, and looking at them as a lay person they look quite fresh. There's even a local known nearby aboriginal site that is 250 years old and looks it.
As for the mastodon, it's news to me, but I'm highly suspect of any positive findings. I believe humans were in the Americas before the widely touted 14,000 year mark. There's solid evidence that Monte Verde in Chile could be 30,000 years old, but maybe just 14,000 years ago. But either way that's far into southern Chile begging the question of when did humans really first arrive in America. But as I said, 130,000 years ago? I'm skeptical, and so are most anthropologists from what I'm seeing
- ncmncm 4y agoMadagascans are related to Indonesians, who like Polynesians have been traced back, ultimately, to Taiwan. There has been recent mixing with Australians. This happened historically quite recently. The marimba started life as the gamelan. The language is also Indonesian. The arrival is dated only 800ya.
- TSiege 4y agoYou are correct. My bad! I am unable to edit or delete that comment since too much time has passed but ncmncm is correct. I conflated Austronesian migration with Australian
- ncmncm 4y agoMore interesting is genetic connections between people at the tip end of South America and Australians. This is usually explained as their common ancestor being the first to enter and populate the Americas. Then, subsequent waves displaced and diluted them except at the extremum of their range. That probably means the first wave crossed not long after people got to Australia, and maybe via a similar route, i.e. island hopping, at least 50,000 years ago. They count four major waves of migration into the Americas, not counting any that left no mark.