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Chris, you were aware of this find years ago and so was I. It's fascinating to see it pop up now in a paper and I simply cannot wait for all of the nitpicking to start from the Clovis Crowd (I think they are down to a few members by now). :roll: Get to your seat and have your drink and popcorn at th...

"These guys were very distantly related to Denisovans, but by no means Denisovan," Willerslev told Live Science. "They were even more distantly related to Neanderthals, and they might have been even more distantly related to modern humans. We believe that they interbred with modern h...

[I promise you all-,] if you keep searching through the evidence, you will find that Pangaea was intact during the era of the Pleistocene, and that the Moon broke apart this super-continent, caused mass extinctions, reduced the size and lifespan of every living creature-caused devolution, [YDB]... ...

What happened? This study made a big splash in July 2015 then promptly dropped into a black hole... An anomalous genetic population in South America closely matching Australasians does not match this predominant paradigm: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126123655.htm From Altai art...

Personally, Circ, I find it astonishing that with the track record of these doomsday prophets there are still morons out there who listen to them.
But then, I'm astonished that anyone would vote for Trump, too.

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity", Robert A. Heinlein

On a raft of seaweed... :lol: Of course, a raft of seaweed since we all "know" that all archaics were grunting brutes, right? The cache of front-weighted javelins at Shoeningen would indicate otherwise. The occupation of Naxos would require reproduction of an island population unless one ...

Neanderthals in a boat? Not such a far-fetched notion after all McMaster University research bolsters theory that our primitive cousins were more sophisticated than previously thought. See: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/12/27/neanderthals-in-a-boat-not-such-a-far-fetched-notion-after-all....

... it is my belief that the first people to arrive in the "new world" were on a mission to find survivors from a great cataclysm that had incinerated and sterilized the entire north American continent approx. 13kya [YDB] [...and was the result of the Moon impacting the Mediterranean sea....

Absolutely Min; however, bitumen was likely exported to Britain during that timeframe by Phoenicians. I can imagine the trade negotiations with the locals: "Your boats sink too soon and aren't seaworthy. Try some of this tar, it works like a charm and will only cost you two cows and your daught...

wooden boats caulked with bitumen actually operated. Tin was being mined in Cornwall prior to 2000bce and exported to the Mediterranean by boats and overland into empires as far as the Middle East. Increasing the longevity of a boat's lifecycle with bitumen would have provided a great ROI for any m...

I still wonder why animals would be heading north at all during an Ice Age, Cogs. Herbivores need plant life and carnivores follow the herbivores. Since we must have a deep ice age in order for Beringia to be uncovered we still have to deal with the idea of all this plant life growing at the time. ...

KB, interesting take on the Beringea Hypothesis.

Still, no mention that animals (& humans) were moving across the landscape in both directions, not just from west to east (unless, of course, there were Paleolithic traffic cops patrolling the area with
one-way traffic signs).

So if there were NO successive populations, if there was a clean separation because these archaic hominids went extinct (think Heidelbergensis, Denisovan, Neandertal, Floresiensis), there wouldn't be any 'genetic admixture traces'. Which, as you say, is what we find. Or rather: don't find. Which we...

You're jumping to conclusions. I wouldn't bet the farm on that position considering Steen-Macintyre's work in Valsequillo, in mid-Mexico, where lithics were provisionally dated between 400 and 600 KYA...! Jumping to conclusions? A successful colonization of the Americas by an archaic hominid would ...

In central North America, mastodon, mammoth, and buffalo made annual migrations of 500-700 miles north/south every year: north in the summer, and south in the winter. The groups shared common feeding grounds at different seasons: A northern group would use a southern group's northern feeding ground...