Another moron comment from Bone Head

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Evidence grows N. America's first colonizers were European

LONDON - Stone Age Europeans were the first trans-Atlantic sailors. Columbus
and the Vikings were mere ocean-crossing latecomers, according to a leading
American anthropologist. Dennis Stanford, of the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, says Neolithic fishermen and hunters sailed the Atlantic in tiny
boats made of animal skins 18,000 years ago and colonized the eastern United
States.

Such a journey would represent one of the most astonishing migrations ever
undertaken - the Earth was then in the grip of the Ice Age and much of its
high northern and southern latitudes were desolate wastelands blasted by
storms and blizzards.

On the other hand, much of the planet's water was locked in icecaps and
glaciers, and sea levels would have been much lower than today's. The edges
of the continents would have extended further into the oceans.

"The gap between Europe and America was greatly reduced," Stanford said. "It
could have been quite feasible for fishermen and whale and seal hunters to
sail around the southern rim of the packs of sea-ice that covered the North
Atlantic and reach land around the Banks of Newfoundland."

Stanford's theory - outlined at a recent archaeology conference in Santa Fe,
N.M. - is based on discoveries indicating ancient American people were
culturally far more like the Neolithic tribes of France, Spain and Ireland
than the Asian people whom scientists had previously thought to be the sole
prehistoric settlers of North America.

Stanford also points out although modern Native Americans possess DNA
similar to that of Asians, they also carry some variants found only in
European people. This genetic input could only be explained by accepting
Stone Age people could sail ocean-going boats, he said.

"We now know that human beings learned to sail 50,000 years before the
present," he said. "Mankind settled in Australia then and it was not linked
by any land bridge to Asia. It could only have been reached by boat.
Clearly, we had mastered sailing tens of thousands of years before America
was colonized, so we should not be surprised by the idea that people took
boat trips across the Atlantic 18,000 years ago."

The theory that prehistoric Europeans colonized America was first put
forward in the 1950s by archaeologist Frank Hibben, but was discredited by
evidence supporting the notion the continent was populated 20,000 to 15,000
years ago by Asian migrants who walked across the land bridge then linking
Siberia with Alaska, and who then trekked south through the continent.

Stanford does not disagree Asian folk colonized ancient America, but argues
current genetic and archaeological evidence shows an influx of Europeans
must also have taken place. The prime candidates for these migrants are the
Solutrean people who lived in Spain 23,000 to 18,000 years ago and later
colonized parts of France and Ireland.

They designed and made beautifully crafted fluted stone blades that bore a
striking similarity to those made by the Clovis people who lived in America
11,000 years ago. Like the Clovis, the Solutreans made stone scrapers to
prepare hides and kept stores of stone implements, buried in red ocher,
round the countryside. These ancient Spaniards therefore must have been
among the first New World settlers, Stanford says. Native Americans are
Iberian, not Siberian, in origin.

The theory's main problem stems from the fact an Atlantic crossing in tiny
Ice Age boats would have been an awesome undertaking. However, Stanford
argues it would have been a less arduous undertaking than might be expected.
"If a storm arrived, they would have camped on an ice island until the
weather got better. Eventually they would have drifted west until they reach
eastern America," he said.

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Oh good grief.

On 4/28/06 7:01 AM, in article 4no4g.11791$P65.10689@southeast.rr.com,

We can use the word Indian no more. They are called "first nations"

You mean you got billingual signs in mexican and english?

On 5/2/06 12:49 AM, in article
kiD5g.242$Ae1.51@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net, "Tom Lawrence"
<tNlOaSwPrAeMnMcIeN5G@earthlink.net> wrote:

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(Amish drive-by)

Mac

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 There was a story on the local PBS station here in Dallas last week
about the plight of Parkland Hospital. (County hospital for Dallas
County) One of the people interviewed was an illegal alien having a
baby. Maria was in the ER having her 8th kid. She's here illegally and
the Dallas County tax payers are footing the bill. Things like this just
piss me off. I have no problem if they are here legally. But damn it,
round up the illegals and ship their butts back home!

 Bob

 I agree. I buy almost everything I need online now. I don't have to
deal with rebates and the prices are usually cheaper than Best Buy,
Circuit City, CompUSA, etc.

 Bob