Scientist have discovered new clues about the earliest known Americans

[ashling]

http://www.businessinsider.com/people-roamed-tip-of-south-america-18500-years-ago-2015-11


A 16,000- to 15,000-year-old stone artifact unearthed at Chile’s Monte Verde site, shown from both sides, contains smooth areas where pieces of the rock were struck off to create a scraping or cutting tool. Researchers say humans first visited the site at least 18,500 years ago.

Human groups foraged near the bottom of South America between at least 18,500 and 14,500 years ago, researchers say.

Their new discoveries challenge a popular view in archaeology that people entered South America no earlier than 15,000 years ago

[KamaAina]

1. How would they have gotten there?

[underahedgerow]

2. Kon Tiki!!

Or land bridge migration over the Bering strait.

By boat from Africa is one occasionally offered theory... But most likely from the West, given the known genetic makeup of the first people of the Americas.

[KamaAina]

4. Kon-Tiki went in the other direction

And the land bridge leads to the top of North America, not the bottom of South America.

[underahedgerow]

5. Joke's on me. All these years I thought it was west to east.... But then I read that book

like 45 years ago and didn't give it much thought then.

And now, thinking about it.... I find it fascinating how little is known about the land migration that descended along the western coast.

[El Supremo]

3. Aliens!