Ancient Migration-Coming to America

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[QUOTE]gregszybala wrote:

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Thanks Bill, somehow I knew you would have all the answers.

   :laugh: I'm sure this will be a thread full of polar opinions, every theory discussion usually has them. I'll read the link tomorrow night at work, I'm almost done with "Across Atlantic ice" so this discussion should prove interesting for me. Thanks for starting the thread Charlie.....I think we should drain the Atlantic seaboard down a couple hundred feet and see what we can find!
  Sorry Charlie, didn't mean to hijack or detract from this thread. I always enjoy the items and references you dig up and the discussions that ensue.
  No problem, Greg. You neither hijacked nor detracted. I found this article by accident and found it to be an excellent wrap up of the present thinking on the subject. I found it to be very even handed as well. I've always said just release the stranglehold of the "Clovis first" dogma and the intellectual freedom that will result will be the best breath of fresh air in American archaeology in decades. And that's just what's happening and why it's never been a more exciting field of inquiry as it is now.

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[QUOTE]cgode wrote:

Thanks Bill, somehow I knew you would have all the answers.

   :laugh: I'm sure this will be a thread full of polar opinions, every theory discussion usually has them. I'll read the link tomorrow night at work, I'm almost done with "Across Atlantic ice" so this discussion should prove interesting for me. Thanks for starting the thread Charlie.....I think we should drain the Atlantic seaboard down a couple hundred feet and see what we can find!
  Sorry Charlie, didn't mean to hijack or detract from this thread. I always enjoy the items and references you dig up and the discussions that ensue.

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[QUOTE]cgode wrote:

Thanks Bill, somehow I knew you would have all the answers.

   :laugh: I'm sure this will be a thread full of polar opinions, every theory discussion usually has them. I'll read the link tomorrow night at work, I'm almost done with "Across Atlantic ice" so this discussion should prove interesting for me. Thanks for starting the thread Charlie.....I think we should drain the Atlantic seaboard down a couple hundred feet and see what we can find!
  I'm sure you'll enjoy this article, Chris. But it moves the discussion cross continent to the Pacific, we'll have to drain that as well

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gregszybala wrote:

Thanks Bill, somehow I knew you would have all the answers.

   :laugh: I'm sure this will be a thread full of polar opinions, every theory discussion usually has them. I'll read the link tomorrow night at work, I'm almost done with "Across Atlantic ice" so this discussion should prove interesting for me. Thanks for starting the thread Charlie.....I think we should drain the Atlantic seaboard down a couple hundred feet and see what we can find!

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Thanks Bill, somehow I knew you would have all the answers.

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Whoa gregszybala, nobody I know has ever said the Solutrean/Clovis folks were the first ones here because they weren't.
There is no question Paleoindians who were not (or never were) Clovis were the first people to enter North and South America. It is a pretty good bet that those people came by boat from Eastern Asia during the Late Glacial Maximum. 
They easily traveled around the Northern Asian ice and stopped where it was possible to fish and hunt seals.
These people traveled down the North and South American coasts, went back to Eastern Asia, and some and even may have liked some places well enough to return and colonize.
The Solutreans who started the Clovis fluted point culture didn’t reach and colonize the North Eastern United States until much later, around 15,000 years ago.
At the end of the Pleistocene, around 11,000 years the Cordilleran and Laurentide Glaciers melted enough to allow North Eastern Asians to walk down the Mackenzie River valley and begin to settle in North America.

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Good read Charlie. Good to see some cooperation among the archaeologists and the involvement of geneticists concerning the study of existing sites and new sites and what can be determined from the dna. All of that information being shared, distributed and studied should eventually give us a much better idea of where the origin/s of the peopling of the Americas came from.
That is of course unless you have irrefutable evidence of Soulutrean first!

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I posted this link a short time ago on page 9 of the Cinmar thread. I just decided that this is such a concise summary of the current state of American archaeology regarding the peopling of the Americas, the broader search of which the origin of Clovis is but one facet, that I would make it more visible to stand on its' own. A very informative read IMHO.

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-migration-coming-to-america-1.10562