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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.   
      
   "Thank you for answering your own question."   
      
   You will understand the question given your "orthodoxy" bit above following   
   immediately after a claim for 40k.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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