Re: First Americans

JTEM wrote:

I don't think that's quite as accurate as you make it sound.

Sorry, I will try to be more vague.

Personally, I tend to think that man was arriving in the
Americas starting the first moments he was capable
of reaching here.

There is a school of thought that he arrived before he was capable?

The evidence for pre-Clovis Americans keeps piling up,
though it remains unconclusive.

We don't need much evidence to conclude that there was a time when man
struggled along without Clovis culture. Your wording is asking the
question: Have Clovis points been discovered in Northern Asia?

We may yet discover
that when the clovis point "culture" emerged it was
not the result of one big wave of arrivals, but the
cumulative effect of numerous waves.... granting that
one or more were larger than the others.

Huh? The Clovis point was probably started by one lone flint
knapper. It did not depend upon "waves."

Doug Chandler







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