First Face Of America

[Treasure_Hunter]

I watched this show on NOVA the other night and it was very interesting on where the American Indians originated. It is 53 mins long just as an FYI.

https://www.pbs.org/video/first-face-of-america-m6dgpn/

 

[T.C.]

WOW!!! Thanks for posting!!

 

[dognose]

Very good show, a very good tale of finding the skeleton and the people of came across the Beringia land bridge.

Thanks for posting

 

[Peyton Manning]

Waaaaaaaaah I can’t get it to play

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Keep trying Jeff, whole lot of people watching now, I'm sure.

GREAT video TH, learned a lot with this = filling in the blanks.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

You mean to say where “white man” theorized they originated?

Those same people say I evolved from some wild animal, which evolved from a single cell creature in some heated pool of stagnant water.

It makes for an interesting story, but is still a theory contrived to explain this amazing world we live in.

 

[arrow86]

Waaaaaaaaah I can’t get it to play

Gave me issues to .... you can go to pbs website and access it from there
Pretty interesting it’s amazing they can tell how much muscle mass she had just from skeletal remains

 

[Mine Shaft]

Thanks T_H i will watch it on demand. I watched a little on the PC went full screen and it was crisp.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Interesting show. Thanks for posting it.

 

[ecmo]

I watched it on antenna t.v. (all I have) on PBS. One of the few intermittent times that channel came in for me. Interesting show.

 

[tamrock]

I pre-record all the Nova series. Pretty interesting episode and they also made note of this episode on PBS of the boy child buried with a cache of beautiful stone artifacts in Montana, which was also an interesting story of early Americans. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/dna-traces-native-americans-ancestry-siberia

 

[tamrock]

I watched it on antenna t.v. (all I have) on PBS. One of the few intermittent times that channel came in for me. Interesting show.

If I had my way around this house I'd settle for airwave tv instead of paying for all the worthless BS on cable these days, but my better half needs to have her meaningless IMO stuff to waist her brain cells on. She doesn't like what I watch and I can't tolerate her stuff. Still we'll find some movies we both enjoy.

 

[arrow86]

I watched it on antenna t.v. (all I have) on PBS. One of the few intermittent times that channel came in for me. Interesting show.

Don’t hear antenna tv too much anymore , iv worked for cable company for 13 years now when I started as a installer I would go in peoples houses that wouldn’t have furniture or running water but they had their cable ..... smh 🤦🏻*♂️

 

[Red James Cash]

r I would go in peoples houses that wouldn’t have furniture or running water but they had their cable ..... smh ����

The zombies need their idiot box you know.

 

[Slingshot]

Sites in NA dated @ 50,000 years ago, sites in SA dated 60,000 years ago, some evidence pushes it back to 70,000 years. Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
Native Americans have been here a long time, way before any ice age land bridge crossings. The Siberian Ice Age crossers were late comers, good show , but I am disappointed that they still push this when so much new evidence has been uncovered in the past 50 years that is ignored for basically religious and political reasons, but the facts are the facts.

 

[newnan man]

Sites in NA dated @ 50,000 years ago, sites in SA dated 60,000 years ago, some evidence pushes it back to 70,000 years. Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
Native Americans have been here a long time, way before any ice age land bridge crossings. The Siberian Ice Age crossers were late comers, good show , but I am disappointed that they still push this when so much new evidence has been uncovered in the past 50 years that is ignored for basically religious and political reasons, but the facts are the facts.

I thought the entire Beringia thing had been mostly discredited as how man first settled North & South America? People no doubt crossed it but man had been here already for thousands of years.

 

[Tony in SC]

I enjoyed the show but I was disappointed in their date range. There are sites all over the Americas that some think are 20K or older. There is a site here in South Carolina that could be the oldest ever found, but the Archaeologist doing the work won't come right and say it because of the flak he would get from all the na sayers.

Sites in NA dated @ 50,000 years ago, sites in SA dated 60,000 years ago, some evidence pushes it back to 70,000 years. Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
Native Americans have been here a long time, way before any ice age land bridge crossings. The Siberian Ice Age crossers were late comers, good show , but I am disappointed that they still push this when so much new evidence has been uncovered in the past 50 years that is ignored for basically religious and political reasons, but the facts are the facts.

 

[OntarioArch]

I highly recommend The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archeology's Greatest Mystery , by Adovasio and Page. Amazon has it for $16 or so. Excellent. It's the story of the archeological excavation of the Meadowcroft rock shelter in southwest PA, and its radical conclusion that the shelter was occupied some 16,000 years BP.

Most remarkable to me were two aspects of this archeological study: the attention to methodological detail and the enormous effort put into record keeping. The scientific rigor involved with this study was essential - critical - to the validity of project's conclusions. If you have never read a scientific journal article that describes these aspects of a 'dig', this book is a great place to begin. Secondly, it becomes apparent why the professionals directing this study insisted on such procedures: the professional, scientific critiques of this study's conclusions were/are brutal! The longest lasting and most vicious criticism - aimed at the heart of the entire study - was simple: contamination of samples that were radiocarbon dated.

This went on for years and is still going on! And all this for a study that "only" pushed back 'First Americans' from about 13,000 to about 16,000 years before present.

 

[rginn]

I'll stick with the party line that we originated here and didn't migrate from nowhere. Red earth, white lies. However, people are always on the move, so just like Europeans sailed across an ocean to come to North America, there could have been some Asians that for whatever reason decided to walk across an ice bridge to come here.

 

[sawmill man]

Good show ,i wish they would do one on all the prehistoric animals they found there to .