Re: OT: Renaming the continents

Robert B Wilson nevesht:
>
>On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:17:04 -0800 Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
>writes:
>
><snip>
>
> > This would mean that of all the people that went to the Americas,
> > the
> > Vikings are most likely the first discoverers.
>
>i was about to write the same thing.
>
>   If the "natives"*
> > walked
> > across a land bridge over a long period of time, it would just seem
> > like
> > Siberia extended onwards.
>
>there is a theory that the "natives" may have come to america by rafts or
>boats.  somebody actuall sailed across the pacific ocean on a small raft
>to prove that this was possible.
>
They most likely coasted, hopping from icefree island to icefree island, the
timing is wrong for trying to walk, there was no gap in the icesheet at the
time of the earliest uncontrovertable sites, and people had boated to
Australia by this time(in fact, some think it was the same group that
settled both, some going north and others south)




-Wayne Chevrier






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