Topic: Move over "Native American's" you were not first!

[Libertas]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/radical-theory-of-first-americans-places-stone-age-europeans-in-delmarva-20000-years-ago/2012/02/28/gIQA4mriiR_story.html?hpid=z5

I've seen other stuff on this theory, and I think it very compelling.  People who pooh-pooh oceanic travel on one hand seem to accept it on face value for Australia and South Pacific Polynesian culture.  There is physical evidence supporting this, and there is no question tools in the east resemble those of Europe more than those of Asia!  Even "Native American" cultures oral history deny an Asian origin and a land-bridge crossing, many cultures merely state they "rose from the earth".

I think it more likely than not that early Europeans were the first to populate North America.

 

[charlesoakwood]

Get off my reservation 

[Libertas]

 

[Glock32]

This does not surprise me. The oldest human remains yet found in the Americas (Kennewick Man, Spirit Cave Mummy, etc) are all non-Amerind in their anthropological characteristics. There were also persistent legends among the Great Lakes tribes about occasional blue eyed offspring, which possibly coincides with the whole "Minnesota Vikings" legend (i.e., did they intermarry into the nearby Indian tribes?)  There's also some discussion by the earliest European explorers that the Cherokee and related tribes had a more "civilized" look, which in their parlance was basically a way of saying they had Europeanized features and lighter skin. Again, could this be the genetic influence of an earlier non-Indian population?

So where's our casino?

[Sectionhand]

I've always wondered how the bow and arrow were supposedly invented simultaneously on two different continents .