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Beef
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Beef asked in Social ScienceAnthropology · 1 decade ago

What are the theories on how aboriginal people got to the Americas?

I'm looking for theories other then the "Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory".

Also I would prefer answers that cite a source that is not wikipedia.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Early Asian boats may have navigated across the north Pacific and along the American west coast as far down as Mexico or more.

  • 1 decade ago

    I just saw a Discovery channel program on this. They did a genetic trace on Native Americans and found that most were linked to a tribe in Mongolia. Also there wasn't a lot of variation, so now they think that there weren't "waves" of immigrants, but rather a few tribes that expanded, varied, and warred with each other for dominance. (This is a very, very simplified synopsis, I know.)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The only plausible path is over the Bering land bridge. Unfortunately, I have no specific references.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well they're finding pre clovis sites back east that seem to have the same style of points that are found in France, so i suppose there may have been a land bridge from europe as well, but the archaeologists where I live dont like to talk much about "Pre-Clovis"

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