Offering more evidence that our assumptions about history are completely off, an archaeologist in South Carolina is saying that radiocarbon tests on artifacts he's found along the Savannah River suggest that humans existed in North America as many as 50,000 years ago. The bold statement shatters the long-held notion that the earliest settlers arrived here about 13,000 years ago in Alaska via a lost land bridge. By comparison, the Egyptian pyramids at Giza are thought to have been built less than 5,000 years ago. Human beings in America 45,000 years before the Pyramids! That's pretty amazing and begs the question of lost civilizations in America possibly undiscovered. Considering that America up until a few centuries ago was largely covered with dense vegetation, there may be a great many things still buried deep in the soil waiting to be unearthed. Full Story
Sunday, 28 January 2007
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