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Anthropology

Wicked Blue

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4. Absolutely. It would have taken thousands and thousands of years

Reply to Ligyron (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 12, 2023, 08:04 AM

Jul 2023

However there's also the unprovable possibility that humans using rafts or boats could have washed up on South American shores from Asia or Africa. I wonder whether it's possible to analyze the sloth pendants to see if they resemble contemporary carving techniques on other continents.

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Giant sloth pendants suggest people arrived in the Americas thousands of years earlier than thought [View all] Wicked Blue Jul 2023 OP

My anthropology professors suspected this, over 50 years ago. raging moderate Jul 2023 #1

As more anomalies are found multigraincracker Jul 2023 #2

If one accepts that these early Americans crossed over from Asia to start with... Ligyron Jul 2023 #3

Absolutely. It would have taken thousands and thousands of years Wicked Blue Jul 2023 #4

Yeah, I was almost going to mention that but it seems unlikely they did. Ligyron Jul 2023 #5

The hypothesis about people crossing wnylib Jul 2023 #6

Now that is truly fascinating. Ligyron Jul 2023 #8

Every once in a while you might come across wnylib Jul 2023 #11

This is all so interesting Wicked Blue Jul 2023 #10

Another possibility that many archaeologists and anthropologists wnylib Jul 2023 #7

That does make a lot of sense. Ligyron Jul 2023 #9

Along the way down the Pacific coast of North America, wnylib Jul 2023 #12