Sorry Pat, missed this post before. As I understand it, the earliest known evidence of life on the planet, dating from the Pre-Cambrian era, some 3.5 billion years ago, was found in Australia. Only an amoeba, yes, but somebody's ancestor.
Which begs the question: How valid is it to argue right of presence by citing ancestry, anyway?
Can't find the article I read on Science Daily, Con; their search engine is pitiful. (Ironic, no?) But the gist was as I said: mounting evidence from multiple sites now indicates people reached the Americas one or two thousand years earlier than previously thought...and those people were not the Clovis Culture folk, presumed ancestors of today's native Americans.
DNA evidence aside, the archaeological evidence against the "Clovis-first" model (the Americas first settled by humans 16-15,000 BCE) has become overwhelming, I think. Monte Verde Site in Chile has reliable dates by multiple methods of 17,500-18,000 years ago. More intriguing, for the Beaker-People-North Atlantic Glacial Crossing-theory, are sites in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, not as firmly dated, but still quite strong.
One possibility is that today's "native Americans" are actually newcomers themselves; that the continents were first reached on or two thousand years earlier, by settlers who did not survive (and left no DNA.) That would make today's "native Americans," in effect, squatters.
Some say from France, now. Have you heard of that theory? I don't find it tenable myself, but there's supposed to be cultural similiarities between the Beaker People and the Clovis Culture.
You talk pretty nasty, Tom, but there's my challenge again, and you ain't answered it. Either you can't because I'm right, or you can't because you're a coward. You choose. My guess is, both.
No, not quite. You clearly have no difficulty uploading a picture, as you have done so. Why not a pic of yourself? Obvious conclusion: you are a former member, hiding under a new name. Your apparent familiarity with all the ins and outs of CS Forum functions, beginning with your use of multiple type-faces in your "New Members" thread, made this painfully obvious; hence my reply there.
I could be wrong, and you could prove it. If you do, by uploading an actual picture of yourself, I will readily apologize.
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I knew it.
RE: Ali has now gotten me curious