Regarding migration of humans to the americas,....?

Question

it looks like 1200 miles btwn s americaa and africa at their shortest points. supposedly humans were herre as long ago as 10,9000 years ago. It seems uunlikely that they came only by way of the Beiring Straight and Greenland. Are there any solid theories that state that they crossed in the southern hemisphere, other than slow island jumping? thxx, tom [e-mail]

Answer 1

Regarding the number 10,9000 years ago, I'm not faniliar with that, however, I do know ancient artifacts along with Homo sapiens bones, have been found in the Gulf of Mexico region which have been carbon-dated to 28,000 years BP (before present)...

500 years ago, Christopher Columbus, in his last voyage to the Americas, took the most southerly route, crossing from the Cape Verde Islands (off the coast of Senegal) to what is now Barbados, however this route is more like 2500 miles in distance...

Even so, the Northeast Trade Winds blow in almost a direct line from the African continent, to the Northern portion of South America, so anything is possible...

Just because there is no African or European DNA present in the inhabitants of South America (Until recently), all that could mean, is that whatever colonies COULD have reached that location via this route, did not successfully propagate and sustain themselves...

Answer 2

It is universally accepted tht Asians migrated in numbers from what is now Russia, over the Berring Sea straights at several times when the sea levels made that land crosing possible. Humans migrate, it is our long history and nature.  

It is also accapted that other peoples may well have, in the case of the Noprsemen,muc later, and West African's in ancient times, probably made the ocean crossing to Central and South America and developed civilizations there.

Africa is indeed a very direct sailing voyage to south America.  Many West African peoples sailed the coast ofthe continent in ancient times and it is logical tht some found methods to extend voyages out into the Atlantic, and to  go father, like the Polynesians did.

The TOLTEC civilization of Central America was an African one.  Many peoples in West Africa have an oral history of a migration and return of colonists to a land directly West in their creation histories.

Physical evidence is most obvious in the enormous rock carvings of undeniably black African heads found in the region of this society that predated the Mayans and the Aztecs, and is considered by some historians to have been the first broad civilization in the Americas.

Many tecnologies, including the building of steppe pramids may have been introduced by them and developed by the indigenous populations that interacted with them.

Many African and Pacific Ocean peoples moved into the seas a long time before Magellan and Columbus.

The so-called Gold Coast nations and states in ancient times had the resources and will to explore centuries before the Portugese and Spanish eras.

The travel of human kind, and their actions is what is facinating about human history.

Answer 3

Science has shown, through genetic markers, that the majority of migration into the America's occurred through Asia.  Some evidence was found for markers occurring only in Europe.  No one has come up with a solid theory for the European markers.  It is possible that Northern Europeans transited to North America during the Viking era. Some anthropological and archaeological evidence has made very strong points, but to date nothing on the North American continent has proved definitive.

Answer 4

yes, look up  Thor Heyerdahl on the internet, and you will see that he proved, by doing so, that egyptians could have travelled between Africa and South America

Answer 5

perternal is right. Around 15-20,000 years ago, the ice age had a lot of water locked up in the polar ice caps, causing the world's sea levels to drop. The land under the shallow Bering Strait was exposed creating a land bridge between North America and Northest Asia. It is believed that the earliest migrants to the Americas came via that route.