The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed

Re:The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier t... by Cyph0n on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:40PM (#13412809)

I'm more impressed by how the coordinated migration to Australia took place around 50,000 years ago! Thanks for the link.

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Re:The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier t... by oska on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:45PM (#13413301)

And they didn't have a complete land bridge to get there. There has always been a sea gap between SE Asia and Australia/New Guinea. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line

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Re:The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier t... by Cyph0n on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:42PM (#13413680)

They had to have been pretty damn smart to get a large party across a sea gap. Proud of our ancestors haha!

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Re:The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier t... by ktRolster on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:09PM (#13413471)

"Civilization is always older than we think, and below our feet were also men and women who lived and loved." -Will Durant

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Re:The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier t... by Cyph0n on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:41PM (#13413676)

Beautiful quote. Never heard of Durant before. Any recommendations?

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Re:The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier t... by ktRolster on Monday January 16, 2017 @06:23PM (#13413953)

I've read The Story of Philosophy. That particular quote comes from Our Oriental Heritage. His writing is generally good, the major difficulty being that he wrote a lot

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Re:The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier t... by allannienhuis on Monday January 16, 2017 @10:56PM (#13415103)

I think his "story of civilization" is considered his most famous work. https://archive.org/details/storyofcivilizat035369mbp

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