Re: Discovery puts humans in South Carolina 50,000 years ago
From: John Brock (jbrock_at_panix.com)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: 29 Nov 2004 17:56:01 -0500
In article <9b937279.0411241123.349f7b2b@posting.google.com>,
George <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote:
>Also since the dates at Monte Verde show a population at 12,500 BP
>those people had to have entered the Northern Americas considerably
>earlier...
I have no fundamental philosophical objection to the idea that
humans could have entered the Western Hemisphere as early as 50,000
years ago. What I can't get my mind around is the distribution of
evidence. How would it be possible that almost no trace of humans
appears for tens of thousands of years, and then, bang!, after
around 12,000BP the evidence is everywhere? Isn't the expected
pattern an *immediate* population explosion, as humans enter a
virgin continent full of animals that have absolutely no experience
with them? What could account for tens of thousands of years of
population suppression, and only then the long delayed explosion?
I'm prepared believe otherwise, if someone can present a convincing
case, but intuitively it just doesn't make sense to me.
-- John Brock jbrock@panix.com
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