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Multiple Migrations to the Americas

07/11/2005 3:27 PM

Its been a generally excepted theory that the first humans in the Americas were Asian nomads migrating over a frozen land bridge in the Bering Strait about 12,000 years ago. However, there seems to be growing evidence that there was multiple migrations to the Americas, some as early as 40,000 years ago .

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Routes

07/11/2005 3:39 PM

Isn't it possible that people took multiple routes? It seems that a vast varitiy of people could have come to the Americas via a bunch of different routes.

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Re:Routes

07/11/2005 4:42 PM

Right on. It's possible, for example, that those who built the statues on Easter Island came from Polynesia. There's also scholarship about a Viking settlement in Newfoundland called Vineland.

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