[nukkad] Ancient human settlements / civilisations

["Dr.M.C. Gupta" <>]

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1. It is widely believed that man probably originated in Africa. Maybe at
different sites in the world almost concurrently.

2. Most scientists believe that during the most recent ice
age<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age>,
sea level <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level> was low enough to allow
humans <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human> and other animals to migrate on
foot from Asia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia> to North
America<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America>across what is now
the Bering
Strait <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait>. This is commonly
referred to as the "Bering land
bridge<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_land_bridge>"
and is believed by some—though not all—scholars to be the first point of
entry of humans into the Americas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americas>
.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Sea

3. New evidence has now confirmed the Bering strait hypothesis:--



  Monte Verde is 14,000 years old:--
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=442699&sid=FTP    Washington, May
13: Scientists have confirmed that the famed Monte Verde archaeological site
in southern Chile is about 14,000 years old, making it the earliest known
human settlement in the Americas, the journal Science reported Thursday.

The age of Monte Verde has been the subject of controversy over the years,
since estimates appeared to conflict with other archaeological evidence
related to the settlement of North America.

The new findings support not only the age of the Monte Verde site, but also
the coastal migration theory currently ascribed to by most scholars, which
hypothesizes that people first entered the New World through the Bering land
bridge more than 16,000 years ago.

The study, based on the first data compiled about the Monte Verde site in
about a decade, identified nine species of seaweed and marine algae used as
food by the settlement's inhabitants.

Carbon dating put the age of the seaweed samples at between 13,980 and
14,220 years old, confirming that the site was occupied some 1,000 years
earlier than any other known human settlements in the Americas. The study
appears in the May 9 issue of Science.

Discovered in 1976, Monte Verde is located in a peat bog about 500 miles
(800 kilometers) south of Santiago, Chile.

Researchers say it could have supported between 20 to 30 people in a dozen
huts along a small creek.

A wide variety of food has been found at the site, including extinct species
of llama and an elephant-like animal called a gomphothere, shellfish,
vegetables and nuts.

4. It is obvious that Asian civilization is, therefore, more ancient than
that of the Americas.

5. Ram has been aged by scientists to about 13000 years BC

6. There is no legalese or medicalese in the above.

MCG
-- 
Prof. M C Gupta
MD (Medicine), MPH,  LL.M.,

Advocate & Health and Medico-legal Consultant

mcgupta44@gmail.com
www.writing.com/authors/mcgupta44
http://mcgupta44.blogspot.com/

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