New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought

Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by WalterBright on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:20PM (#14205568)

I think it was Nova a while back that suggested that clovis technology came from a stone age french tribe, and that there were traces of them in the genes of eastern native americans.

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by canjobear on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:33PM (#14205686)

That is the "Solutrean Hypothesis": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis

My understanding is that it is roundly rejected by almost all archaeologists.

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by WalterBright on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:28PM (#14206177)

The text and the pictures are confusing - the picture shows haplogroup X having a european origin, and the text says otherwise.

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by enceladus_ice on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:41PM (#14206783)

I recently watched a NOVA documentary from last year that refutes the Eurocentric theories of Clovis origins.

Great Human Odyssey: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365856257/

Geneticists sequenced the DNA from a young boy's 13,000-year-old bones found in Montana. His DNA matches a specific combination of Eastern Asian and Siberian DNA that is found in all North and South American native populations, and only in these populations. This lends to the theory that the first people to permanently settle the America's (Clovis) were made up of groups from Siberia and Eastern Asia combining and crossing the Bering Strait.

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by flukus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:53PM (#14208830)

> Geneticists sequenced the DNA from a young boy's 13,000-year-old bones found in Montana.

Wouldn't that make the boy a member of the clovis culture and not the pre-clovis one being discussed?

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by enceladus_ice on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:59PM (#14209075)

Yep, the article is talking about a group of people that are definitely pre-Clovis, which is super exciting!

I was replying to WalterBright's comment mentioning the Clovis culture coming from what is now Europe.

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by red_hairing on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:41PM (#14207294)

but given political considerations, can that particular science be trusted?

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by Steko on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:44PM (#14208568)

If you're going to object to their science, let's hear the actual objections and not just handwavey notions that somehow the science is bad because you don't favor the conclusions.

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Re:New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earl... by enceladus_ice on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:54PM (#14209057)

Which political considerations are you talking about?

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