<HTML>When uncritical statements such as,
"The very earliest known settlement in America flourished on the Atlantic side, in SE Piauí State, NE Brazil, where bedrock dated 50,050. The rockshelters on the Piauí River would have been accessible within hiking distance via a branch of the Gulf Stream but impossible from Panamá even today afoot."
are disingenious at best.
>That Stanford precisely.He is not exactly alone in that view and it is not
>at all a new idea nor is the ill considered contempt with which it is met.
Attempting to back up your ideas by quoting the opinions and theories of scholars from the 1930s and the 1870s isn't good science.
This hyper-diffusionist idea also discounts a phenomenon well known within archaeology: parellel evolution, whether biological or cultural or technological evolution.
This paper also ignores the genetic and anatomical evidence showing that the first inhabitants of Europe (btw: the above 50kya date is BEFORE the Solutrean in Europe) came via Asia.
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