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[MrGongGong]

I wasn't aware that it was lost in the first place ?
Did they discover that goose liver is extremely delicious ?

[Pabmusic]

Well, they didn't really discover it, did they?

True; or at least, hardly in the sense that we usually mean 'discover'. It's a poor word to use in an article about stone age people 25,000 years ago.

[french frank]

Quote Originally Posted by Serial_Apologist
My thought was that Native American Indians discovered America...

Well, they didn't really discover it, did they? They knew about it, because they were living there.

Is that correct? I thought the inhabitants of the American continent originally came over from Asia?

[Chris Newman]

Is that correct? I thought the inhabitants of the American continent originally came over from Asia?

Research with genes and archeology strongly suggests that the older native American tribes particularly in South America crossed the Bering Sea from Siberia about 11,000 years ago. There are strong genetic connections with Tibet and South East Asia.Whether the Bering Sea was frozen over or a land-mass like the English Channel was at that time is much argued. However there are genetic similarities between the peoples. Later crossings are thought likely, for example the Inuit are very closely related to the Mongolese people Siberia.

[Serial_Apologist]

Research with genes and archeology strongly suggests that the older native American tribes particularly in South America crossed the Bering Sea from Siberia about 11,000 years ago. There are strong genetic connections with Tibet and South East Asia.Whether the Bering Sea was frozen over or a land-mass like the English Channel was at that time is much argued. However there are genetic similarities between the peoples. Later crossings are thought likely, for example the Inuit are very closely related to the Mongolese people Siberia.

I nu it !

[MrGongGong]

I nu it !

Suitable soundtrack maybe ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biAJ8wPOGBA

[3rd Viennese School]

Fascinating.

I still dont see what it has to do with NHS liver and onions on a Monday.

3VS

[Serial_Apologist]

Fascinating.

I still dont see what it has to do with NHS liver and onions on a Monday.

3VS

It's more easily digested?

[Flosshilde]

Well, they didn't really discover it, did they? They knew about it, because they were living there. I take the word "discover" to mean finding a continent/ island/planet/species/ that one previously never knew existed. Native Americans might have discovered the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the article refers to the continent of North America itself.

Is it difficult, or does it come naturally?

[scottycelt]

Well, they didn't really discover it, did they? They knew about it, because they were living there. I take the word "discover" to mean finding a continent/ island/planet/species/ that one previously never knew existed. Native Americans might have discovered the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the article refers to the continent of North America itself.

Yes, but if you don't believe that the Injuns really discovered their native land, I regret to advise that a negative belief doesn't really qualify as a 'belief' at all, you see, because every philosopher since Kant and intellectual members of For3 forum have apparently decreed this ruling ... so we all have to believe that the Injuns discovered it!

[Pabmusic]

Research with genes and archeology strongly suggests that the older native American tribes particularly in South America crossed the Bering Sea from Siberia about 11,000 years ago. There are strong genetic connections with Tibet and South East Asia.Whether the Bering Sea was frozen over or a land-mass like the English Channel was at that time is much argued. However there are genetic similarities between the peoples. Later crossings are thought likely, for example the Inuit are very closely related to the Mongolese people Siberia.

Except that new research of the same nature suggests that stone age people from Europe settled in America many thousands of years before the stone age people from Asia. Post 53 links to the relevant article.

[Pabmusic]

What's that got to do with Foie Gras??

Actually (and this didn't occur to me until just now) it's this passage from the link: "chemical analysis carried out last year on a European-style stone knife found in Virginia back in 1971 revealed that it was made of French-originating flint."

They were evidently stone-age chefs. :rolleyes:

[Flosshilde]

Well, they didn't really discover it, did they? They knew about it, because they were living there. I take the word "discover" to mean finding a continent/ island/planet/species/ that one previously never knew existed. Native Americans might have discovered the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the article refers to the continent of North America itself.

Tut tut - if you are going to be pompously pedantic, Pee, you should get it right. The first 'native Americans' didn't discover America, nor were they living in America.


It wasn't 'America' then.

[Serial_Apologist]

Tut tut - if you are going to be pompously pedantic, Pee, you should get it right. The first 'native Americans' didn't discover America, nor were they living in America.


It wasn't 'America' then.

I stand corrected!

[Flosshilde]

I suppose I should also have said that they weren't 'native Americans'

So, people who weren't native Americans didn't discover America and weren't living there.