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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Stone Age Europeans Discovered America



Here is an interesting article saying that new discoveries indicate that the first settlers of the Americas were not Siberian-originating ancestors of today's Native Americans. New finds, such as arrowheads and other tools show that some Europeans made it here about 10,000 years before those who crossed over the Bering Strait.

"A remarkable series of several dozen European-style stone tools, dating back between 19,000 and 26,000 years, have been discovered at six locations along the US east coast. Three of the sites are on the Delmarva Peninsular in Maryland, discovered by archaeologist Dr Darrin Lowery of the University of Delaware. One is in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia. A sixth was discovered by scallop-dredging fishermen on the seabed 60 miles from the Virginian coast on what, in prehistoric times, would have been dry land.

The new discoveries are among the most important archaeological breakthroughs for several decades - and are set to add substantially to our understanding of humanity's spread around the globe."

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This doesn't directly support anything taught by the LDS church, but at the very least, I hope we can realize that we do not have a full grasp of the history of the American continent, and I hope we can be a little more open-minded towards some LDS claims.




2 comments:

x said...

That was a great article and i wish i would of stumbled upon this months ago. I don't remember this information ever being in mainstream media or i would of came across it. I bet Native Americans don't like this a bit since it mostly likely contradicts their origin myths as well.

Cristofer Urlaub said...

Very true, but the date on this article is from only a few months ago and it seems like they're still analyzing some sites. Maybe we'll see something in the media soon.

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