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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@NativePortlander1970 Asian and Pacific Islanders
@ChipmunkErnie Asian, via the Bering Straight, the Polynesians stayed mainly with the islands. However, the Polynesians originated from the S.E. Asian areas as well, like Thailand and the Philipines.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@NativePortlander1970 If you go back far enough we all came from the same origins. BUT I meant that the Pacific Islanders came via sea and I think their influence is mainly found in South America.
@ChipmunkErnie No, Samoa, Guam, Midway, Hawaii, Rapanui, etc, the South Americans came from the North through land.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@NativePortlander1970 You were there? Or you just quoting the standard line? Even a cursory internet search shows that the Bering land bridge theory is currently considered uncertain, at best...
"Bering Land Bridge
Scientists once theorized that the ancestors of today's Native Americans reached North America by walking across this land bridge and made their way southward by following passages in the ice as they searched for food. New evidence shows that some may have arrived by boat, following ancient coastlines."
"Bering Land Bridge
Scientists once theorized that the ancestors of today's Native Americans reached North America by walking across this land bridge and made their way southward by following passages in the ice as they searched for food. New evidence shows that some may have arrived by boat, following ancient coastlines."
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@ChipmunkErnie I must admit often thinking the land-bridge idea unlikely because although the Bering Strait is shallow (only around 30-50m deep at present) for the sea level to be that low would need the Northern latitudes deep under ice-sheets.
This is Encyclopedia Britannica's take on it:
More accurately, the last Glacial Maximum of the present Ice Age: a time of climatic oscillations with 100 000 -200 000 year periodicity.
The fly in the ointment is that although people and animals probably occupied the tundra fringing the ice, I don't see it as likely they would have ventured onto it. So did they and the wildlife have a comparatively brief window, maybe a few thousand years, in which all the right conditions co-incided?
This is Encyclopedia Britannica's take on it:
During the Ice Age the sea level fell by several hundred feet, making the strait into a land bridge between Asia and North America, over which a considerable migration of plants and animals, as well as humans (about 20,000 to 35,000 years ago), occurred.
More accurately, the last Glacial Maximum of the present Ice Age: a time of climatic oscillations with 100 000 -200 000 year periodicity.
The fly in the ointment is that although people and animals probably occupied the tundra fringing the ice, I don't see it as likely they would have ventured onto it. So did they and the wildlife have a comparatively brief window, maybe a few thousand years, in which all the right conditions co-incided?