James,
Inasmuch as within the past 10,000 years we know for certain that at some
times the artic circle has contracted making it warm enough on Greenland and
Iceland for farming and herding, it seems rather within a logical
expectation that Antarctica could also have had a climate change in the past
20,000 years coinciding with a migratory attempt, say from Asia to Australia
to Antarctica and up to America. Not impossible. It seems odd that the
earliest and most advanced civilizations in the Americas occurred in Chile
and Peru rather than within easy reach of a Bering Strait passage. Why would
the more lush lands on the west coast of North America be bypassed and a
civilization begun on the unlikely west coast of South America? By putting
all of our eggs in the Bering Strait theory, I think we are missing some
pieces of the puzzle.
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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