Re: OT: Renaming the continents

John Cowan nevesht:
>
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > Unless some spectacular shift on archaeological dating has happened
>since
> > last I checked, people got to Australia way before they got to North
> > America.
>
>Specifically, Australia was settled around 40 KYBP, whereas the very
>earliest dates for American settlement are around 25 KYBP, and are
>still pretty shaky for anything before 13 KYBP (Folsom).
>
>KYBP = thousand years before the present
>
Actually there is some(controversial) evidence of about 40KYBP (or earlier)
in the Americas, one of the problems being, if they came down the coast, the
sites would be underwater now.




-Wayne Chevrier






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