Asian jade carvings and other works I have the inescapable feeling that there was direct Asian influence in Mesoamerica, especially with the Maya.
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Also 10 different kinds of Pacific seaweed have been found at Monte Verde that were used in some way by the inhabitants: When I’ve compared the artistic styles of Mayan vs. Of course it’s located on the Atlantic side of South America so it doesn’t exactly fit the scenario I’ve described above but hunter-gatherers are mobile, and the Pacific is just 50 miles west of the site.
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Clovis culture by at least 1000 years: en./wiki/Monte_Verde We know that the Monte Verde culture in southern Chile predates the U.S. Considering the world's climate at the time that would probably mean Mexico and points south. Since they probably mainly fished for a living they likely hugged the coast until they found areas where it made sense to build permanent settlements with availability of food, water and a safer environment. And considering that temperatures warmed as the explorers moved southward, it seems to me early travelers would keep moving onward while avoiding ice, snow, saber-toothed cats and other northern hazards. Where's the evidence? Much, I believe, sits 300 feet or so underwater. Many archaeologists now believe hunter-gatherers migrated to the west from Asia and perhaps other more southern points via boats, following ocean currents that traveled from Asia around the Aleutians and then south again aldong the American west coast. We know that some sort of boat technology was developed at least 40,000 years ago - otherwise Australia would never have been populated (unless human life originated there somehow, which is highly unlikely). With all that ocean water sitting in frozen form on North America and Northern Europe, ocean levels were some 300 feet lower than today. It wasn't exactly a Club Med for colonists. It was also the home of some really scary megafauna like dire wolves and saber-toothed cats, not to mention mastodons and other predatory creatures. Roughly 12,000 years ago most of North America was covered by giant ice sheets, two miles high in some areas. We know for certain the Polynesians had settlements in South America - how else would native sweet potatoes have been transferred to Oceania? I'm convinced the Chumash Indians from my area of California were of Polynesian origin. Others belatedly arrived across the Bering land bridge before the glacial Big Melt.
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Others probably followed the route that was later “discovered” by the Vikings from Northern Europe to Iceland, Greenland and present-day Canada. Some came as I’ve described below others probably arrived across the Atlantic from the Dakar, Africa region to Brazil’s “hump” – the shortest distance across the Atlantic. I strongly believe the Americas were "discovered" several times by several kinds of people. After a lot of study and thinking I've come to the strong diffusionist point of view. There's a vast amount yet to be learned about the peopling of the Americas.