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I understand that white supremacists were using the Kennewick man to prove whites somehow "owned" America first and that one particular supremacist "religion" (

I understand that white supremacists were using the Kennewick man to prove whites somehow "owned" America first and that one particular supremacist "religion" (I won't name it) was suing to keep them if they were of European ancestry. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=5664 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&... Looks like the the simplest answer, (walking across the land bridge) is building up a huge preponderance of evidence.

pcrh 11y ago
There was a claim that evidence of earlier human habitation than the Bering Strait migration had been found in Brazil [1]. I am not sure how the evidence has held-up to further scrutiny (there are issues surrounding dating of the petroglyphs found), but this article [2] has some discussion and nice pictures of the caves and petroglyphs. An independent migration to S. America, most likely from Africa, is obviously possible, even if that population later died out. Consider that Madagascar was initially populated by people from the South China Sea, a claim initially met with much incredulity. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-on-humans-arrival-in-the-americas.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries... [2] http://www.rockartscandinavia.com/images/articles/brazila9.pdf http://www.rockartscandinavia.com/images/articles/brazila9.p...