24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians

[badtoworse]

55. Interesting post and thanks you for sharing it.

I've always known about the land bridge from Asia to North America across the Bering Strait being the route taken by the North American Indian ancestors, but I never considered a similar bridge across the Atlantic. Considering a seal level almost 400 feet lower than today makes a big difference. I do a bit of fishing off New England and New Jersey and it's a bit weird thinking of those spots as being dry land 8,000 years ago.

The insights into technology were also very interesting. I never considered what it would take to make a decent bow with the tools and materials available in the Neolithic era. Multiple people working for weeks to gather the stone and fashion points, kill birds and save feathers, dry sinew and make bowstrings, cut the actual bow and fashion straight shafts for the arrows. I wounder what they might have done with a modern compound leverage bow and a quiver full of broadheads. I read an article a number of years ago in Scientific American about the composite bows used by the Mongols. They were actually pretty high tech and were made with variopus woods and bone. Their characteristic double curve gave them great leverage with a short bow that could be shot on horseback.

All in all, a good read. Thanks for posting

P.S. I have to apologize for the late response. I got involved in a bunch of things at home and at work and haven't had time to get on DU since last week.

Have a nice Thanksgiving