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   XPost: sci.archaeology   
      
   >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.   
      
   "It's not that long since anthropologist orthodoxy held to much the same   
   opinion."   
      
   When was that ever the concensus?  Until the last decades the clovis model   
   was "orthodoxy" at around 11 k or so years.  That model has since been   
   displaced by newer information.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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