Are Solutreans Indigenous Americans? Documentary

It would be cool if there was a pre-Viking Atlantic crossing though.

Something that is a cool fact though: the people of Madagascar originated from Borneo and crossed the Indian ocean (a farther trip than Columbus to America) with rafts 1,500 to 2000 years ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-05-04/genes-link-people-of-madagascar-to-borneo/...

It's not that the Beringia crossing didn't happen 12,000 years ago. It's just that it can not explain several accepted archaeological sites which go back 17,000 years, as with the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in SW Pennsylvania which now dates back beyond 20,000 years.
DNA is a useful tool but there are other equally important tools, like blood types. Type O is the oldest blood type and it is the blood type of 90% of indigenous Americans (almost 100% of South Americans). Yet type O blood only represents less than 50% of Eurasians and Africans.
We have a lot yet to discover.

That IS curious ! Perhaps there is a mistake somewhere ... better go over it a few times .

Actually, it would make sense for one blood type to end up being the main one in a small population especially if they were closely related. The estimates I've heard for the first crossing into the Americas was about 150 to 200 people.

What's interesting too is that lack of diversity has been cited as one reason the European diseases wiped out the Native Americans so effectively. Because if you don't have any immunity to a disease in any given population (ie when the diseases first struck Europe) they were able to knock out about half of the population. However the same diseases when introduced to the Americas wiped out around 95% of the population according to more recent findings. Which is WAY too high a mortality rate even for a population with no immunity. So their lack of genetic diversity from their original 150 person crossing clan was their downfall 18,000 years later. :(

Read the books Guns,Germs,and Steel
Also read 1491 AND 1493. Highly recommend all three of those books. I love Native American history but even if you are just kinda 'meh' about it you'll find their presentation of the material hard to stop reading.

I haven't heard about that site but I do know that the oldest confirmed site in North America is in Texas was discovered in 2011 just outside of College Station Texas that was 13,200 to 15,500 years old.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108734-Oldest-Evidence-of-Humans-in-No...

I mean there's tons of unconfirmed sites like the one near Rio in Brazil or whatever it is that's like 36,000 years old or something but they usually chalk those kind of dates up to mistakes in data collection or mixture of older material into more recent habitation samples.

My blood type is B positive and my family came here from England in the 1600s.

I've learned a lot from reading Jared Diamond and Charles Mann.
One thing I learned is that our worst diseases came from the domestication of cattle, pigs and chickens many thousands of years ago. Indigenous Americans were exposed to pathogens in less than a century which Eurasians and Africans developed an immunity to for millennia.
If the Solutreans and Mongolians interbred in America 12,000 years ago (as this new theory proposes) then there should have been plenty of genetic diversity among Indian tribes.

Check out the video second to bottom - "The First Americans." The book is up there with Diamond! The Meadowcroft Rockshelter in SW PA has confirmed dates going back 17,000 years and as yet unconfirmed dates going back 30,000 years.
This site is five miles from where I grew up and 25 miles from where I live now. It's exciting!

You might be interested in this from an article I'm writing:

The oldest human blood type is O (‘the universal donor’) is the predominant blood type of aboriginal Americans - almost 100% in South Americans and 90% in North Americans.

Type A is the second oldest blood type, comprising some 35% of people and originating around 20,000 B.C. in the Indo-European peoples of central Europe.

Type B comprises about 10% of the human population and originated about 10,000 B.C. in Africa and Asia.

Type AB is a recent mutation which first appeared around 1,000 years ago.

(I'm Type O+)

"Now a new find in Texas of a campsite full of 15,528 stone artifacts has been dated between 13,200 and 15,500 BCE. 56 of those pieces are stone tools - working stones, blades, scrapers and choppers "

This is a little confusing. I assume that 15,500 BCE translates to 17, 513 years ago.
That is the same age as the Pennsylvania site accepted by the archaeological community. Only at Meadowcroft they are also uncovering textiles - clothing and baskets going back over 20,000 years.

You're welcome!
It's always good to keep our heads up and our minds open.
Amazing stuff, 'eh?

I relate to Cro-Magnon most and have followed this story closely for 30 years.
I don't doubt that the first humans evolved in Africa. But the full story of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon is just beginning to emerge which I find endlessly interesting.
Louis Leakey Sr. proposed that Cro-Magnon actually evolved in the American Southwest over 100,000 years ago with his finds at Calico Hills, California, back in the 1960s!
Science does require a little faith and inspiration. But most of all it keeps an open mind sorely lacking in religion.