New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe â 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World.
A remarkable series of several dozen European-style stone tools, dating back between 19,000 and 26,000 years, have been discovered at six locations along the US east coast. Three of the sites are on the Delmarva Peninsular in Maryland, discovered by archaeologist Dr Darrin Lowery of the University of Delaware. One is in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia. A sixth was discovered by scallop-dredging fishermen on the seabed 60 miles from the Virginian coast on what, in prehistoric times, would have been dry land.
The new discoveries are among the most important archaeological breakthroughs for several decades – and are set to add substantially to our understanding of humanity’s spread around the globe.
The similarity between other later east coast US and European Stone Age stone tool technologies has been noted before. But all the US European-style tools, unearthed before the discovery or dating of the recently found or dated US east coast sites, were from around 15,000 years ago – long after Stone Age Europeans (the Solutrean cultures of France and Iberia) had ceased making such artefacts. Most archaeologists had therefore rejected any possibility of a connection. But the newly-discovered and recently-dated early Maryland and other US east coast Stone Age tools are from between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago – and are therefore contemporary with the virtually identical western European material.
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Explain to me why such a high percentage of investigative journalism comes from England these days?
And why so little comes from the heartland of USA.
Ed K
No idea. Your guess?
Because the writer of such information went to Ukraine?
From Memphis, Tenn:
You could divide all the economic resources equally
and they would be distributed the same as they are
now in 20 years. That, or you could follow the North
Korea or Cuban models and everyone would share
equally in the misery.
I’m about halfway through Levin’s new book,
“Ameritopia”, and Levin points out what many
of us have know for a long time. Utopia doesn’t
exist and all attempts to create it have failed,
every place, every time.â BH