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   "The dates for Beringia shouldn't be confused with "at   
   least" making it sound as if that were 13,500 years ago.   
   It is very likely that the last significant migration   
   (and note that for several thousand years there was   
   both east and west movement) happened at about 13,500   
   years ago.   
      
   Only flat earth and creation believers still think there   
   were no people in the Americas 40,000 years ago."   
      
   What evidence for the 40 k claim?  What east/west migration involving the   
   americas and evidence for it?   
      
   This wiki:   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas   
      
   Speaks of the sum of archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistic and   
   genetic information now known.   
      
   It puts the date at least 16 k years ago.  That is in fact the date of   
   meadowcroft site in pa.  That would mean prior to that time the first   
   migration began some thousands miles to the north.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowcroft_Rockshelter   
      
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