Coastal Route Theory

Coastal Route Theory

"9,500 year old skeleton found near Kennewick, Washington believed to be of Polynesian or Ainu (South Asian) descent rather than Caucasoid or European descent, which shows clear evidence of migration to the present-day Northwestern United States by peoples other than Caucasoid."

http://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/hight-kreitman/coastal-route-theory

Coastal Theory Facts

By the 1920s studies indicated that blood type O was predominant in pre-Columbian populations, with a small admixture of type A in the north. Further blood studies combining statistics and genetic research were pioneered by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza and applied to population migrations predating historical records. This led Jacob Bronowski to assert in 1973 (in The Ascent of Man) that there were at least two separate migrations:

"I can see no sensible way of interpreting that but to believe that a first migration of a small, related kinship group (all of blood group O) came into America, multiplied, and spread right to the South. Then a second migration, again of small groups, this time containing either A alone or both A and O, followed them only as far as North America

• Remains, known as Kennewick Man, are found in 1996 on the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. A skull and more than 300 bones and bone fragments were found at the site, making up among the oldest, best preserved, and most complete human remains ever found in North America. Initial radiocarbon dating indicated the remains were between 7,000 and 9,500 years old.[60] A leaf-shaped projectile found on the body was long, broad and had serrated edges, all fitting the definition of a Cascade point. This type of point is a feature of the Cascade phase, occurring in the archaeological record from roughly 6,000 to over 8,500 years ago.

• 1930s-1990s no major Central American archaeological sites that go back more than 9,000 years have been found. Isolated finds of stone tools in Belize, Nicaragua and Costa Rica indicate that such sites almost certainly exist. Lack of funding for exploration in the areas has postponed likely finds.[57]

Tehuacan Valley of Mexico – people are living in rock shelters and using stone cooking pots, which were left in the center of the hearth. Maize was cultivated to be used in the same valley between 7,000–6,000 years ago.

• Ice age over, climate similar to present temperatures. Old migration theories believe first widespread migration in South America and subsequently a dramatic rise in population all over the Americas, introduced in the 1930s.[55]

• The Maritimes of Canada are settled by Paleo-Indians. Sites in and around Belmont, Nova Scotia have evidence indicating small seasonal hunting camps, perhaps re-visited over many generations.[56]

• Luzia Woman's skull and other bones excavated in the Lagoa Santa, Brazil area by French archaeologist Annette Laming-Emperaire in the 1970s.[57] By 2006, Lagoa Santa sites had produced no fewer than 75 well-preserved ancient skulls.[57]

• 1994, University of California, Riverside anthropologist R. Erv Taylor examined seventeen of the Spirit Cave artifacts near Fallon, Nevada from the 1940s using mass spectrometry. The results indicated that a mummy was approximately 9,400–10,200 years old — older than any previously known North American mummy.[58]

Unique markers found in DNA recovered from an Alaskan tooth were found in specific coastal tribes, and were rare in any of the other indigenous peoples in the Americas. This finding lends substantial credence to a migration theory that at least one set of early peoples moved south along the west coast of the Americas in boats.

Coastal Route Theory: New research and studies have prompted some anthropologists and archaelogists to present the theory that people from Southeast Asia traveled by boat along the coastline and settled in the Western portion of North America and the Northwestern portion of South America. The theory also helps to explain how certain artifacts have been found so far from the Bering Strait region dating before and around the supposed time that humans first came into contact with the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge.

New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early migration route followed the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago.

The paper, which includes the first new data reported from the site in the last 10 years, includes the identification of nine species of seaweed and marine algae recovered from hearths and other areas in the ancient settlement. The seaweed samples were directly dated between 14,220 to 13,980 years ago, confirming that the upper layer of the site, labeled Monte Verde II, was occupied more than 1,000 years earlier than any other reliably dated human settlements in the Americas.

A new study of soil sediment cores on the Aleutian island of Sanak lends support to the Pacific Coast Migration Model of the original colonization of the American continents.

Jackob Tinnon

Settlements

Nick Fulk

Food

They're food mainly consisted of seafood such as seaweed.

Route map

Sources

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2008/05/new-evidence-from-earliest-known-human-settlement-in-the-americas-supports-coastal-migration-theory-58122/

http://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/hight-kreitman/coastal-route-theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_migration

http://archaeology.about.com/b/2012/06/22/new-evidence-for-the-pacific-coastal-migration-theory.htm

Nick Fulk

Kennewick Man

Nick Fulk

Kennwick Man

image

Tinnon's idea

Hawking

Aproved

We have scientific evidence! What about you Land Bridge Theory people!?!?

The end

Can you EXPLAIN why your correct and not us because we have EVIDENCE that we're CORRECT!!! I hate to brag but it's true.

Do it!