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To: Brumar89 who wrote (9736)	5/25/1999 12:22:00 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 17770

But Brumar, that is my point exactly, these people were continent hopping nomads. In a period of time less than that which took Homo sapiens sapiens to migrate from Africa into Europe, in a period of a mere 7000 years at most these bands of people migrated from Asia across the length and breadth of the Americas. That is an amazing occurance. To ignore that fact and assume that every skeletal remains we find is the direct ancestor of the modern tribal group that inhabited that area is a bit odd in my opinion. It assumes first that the migrating groups of hunter/gatherers plopped down in one place and stayed there for millenia, and two, that the modern tribal groups that Europeans encountered were not the product themselves of widespread migrations. My assumptions which may or may not be correct, and have yet to be finally verified by the archaeology, is that these groups veritably blitzed the continent. This is what I find so interesting about the possibility that the Clovis theory is not entirely correct and that there were people here before them. It suggests the possibility that the population of the Americas was not entirely done by the first wave exploiting the rift in the glacier at the Straits. In which case there is a very real possibility that you may be correct. However, until there is conclusive proof or at least a proponderance of evidence to convince me, I must for sake of honesty stick to my opinion. And I thank you for yours. Derek