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The Bering Strait Fable I believe the theory that humans got to the Americas only by this route, or even primarily by this route, must be a fairytale. Eurocentricity and religious bias helped form this theory and these factors invalidate it for that reason alone, even before logic and physical evidence are applied. It is gradually becoming clearer from the archaeological findings that the Americas may have been a melting pot for much longer than we ever suspected. I find it amazing that any anthropologist or archaeologist will still anchor themselves and our world history to the Bering Strait theory. Part of the problem is biblical. The most complete and popular historical records we have were extracted from ancient scrolls found in one geographic area. It is a history. It is not necessarily THE history. The scribes of the time recorded the people and places of the time. Whether 'divinely inspired' or not, the focus of these and other regional documents is... regional. Just because boats were a new thing to relatively land-locked shepherds and farmers in Noah's time does not mean the rest of the world was empty and even if there were people they didn't know about boats either. This is naivete in the extreme. Another big factor in the survival of evidence, written or otherwise, is the environment. In the region we consider the origin of all, the geology is favorable to preservation. Despite the sun and wind, stone structures tend to survive fairly well in an arrid climate, as do the artifacts stored within them, even paper goods. In most other parts of the world, weather and geology are not so kind. Even just moderate moisture can destroy materials or provide a suitable environment for a myriad of creatures to destroy them, from microbes to rodents. It's not surprising that a lot remains in North Africa and the Middle East and yet the volcano, earthquake, and storm ridden areas elsewhere in the world have only sparce remains and/or well-hidden secrets. They've been churned quite a bit over the millenia. Certainly ice preserves well too and here is a possible explanation for all the faith laid on the Bering Strait theory, but it's still a very shallow perspective, at best. What we may have found in ice and desert sands is not all there ever was. We must remember this and when we do finally get some traces from these other areas, we must allow room for them. It serves no one to lock down a theory so tightly that all chance of finding a greater truth is shut out. I suspect that the Americas were populated from many areas, even before they were the Americas. Some may have traversed the land bridge in the Bering Strait. Next in Sequence Select From Menu |
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