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In article <1992Nov3.231456.22396@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:

> In article <1992Nov3.002144.16671@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:

> >Admittedly, I don't have the time to keep up with the archaelogical journals
> >and have to take my information from popular media, but isn't it the case that
> >solid evidence for long-term human presence in the Americas is growing?  That
> >is, is their timeline long enough at this point?  And what route(s) do they
> >propose for the migrations?
> 
> 	The migrations would all be through Alaska and going southward
> from there, but the populations of origin may have been different.



The archeological evidence is basically in agreement with the article
in Sci Am.  There seems to be some evidence that humans lived in the
Americas as early as about 50,000 years ago but it's contested hotly
by others. If it's true, it means that the migrators from Asia
might have mixed with the indigenous inhabitants (whatever that
means).


The years of ~12,000 and ~20,000 years ago crop up regularly in
the articles I've read over the years.
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	mark	


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