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Divers use lights to illuminate Hoyo Negro, an underwater cave in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula where the remains of “Naia,” a teenage girl who lived 12,000 to 13,000 years earlier, were found.
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Discovery Confirms Native American Views on Their Ancestry

By Alexander Ewen
Channel Island Indians, Channel Islands, Channel Island, Southern California, Bitumen, Paleoindians, Archaeologists, Environmental Health, Environmental Health Journal, Chumash, Santa Ynez Mission, Environmental Health Perspectives, San Miguel Island, Smithsonian, Cancer, Fossil Fuels, Environmental Destruction
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Were Channel Island Indians Poisoned By Water Bottles?

By Alexander Ewen
Vail & Vickers, Vail & Vickers Ranch House, National Park Service, Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands, Chumash Nation, Ancient Archaeological Sites, Archaeological Sites, Artifacts, Native American Artifacts, Spearheads, University of Oregon, Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, Arlington Canyon, Arlington Springs Man, Land Bridge, Bering Strait Theory, Huaca Prieta
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Ancient Archaeological Site Uncovered Under Old House in California

By Alexander Ewen
Huaca Prieta, Monte Verde, Peru, Indian Villages, Archaeological Sites, Tom Dillehay, Archaeologists, Native American History
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Huaca Prieta Provides More Proof of What Indians Already Knew

By Alexander Ewen
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Afterword

By Alexander Ewen
Humans, 130,000 years ago, mastodon, A 19th-century engraving of a mastodon skeleton
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Humans Populated Americas 130,000 Years Ago? Mastodon Findings Spark Controversy

By Alexander Ewen
1562 map of the world by Venetian cartographer and engraver Paulus de Furlanis Veronensis (Paulo Forlani). The map shows Asia and the Americas being joined by a land bridge, named Arsarot (Arsareth), after the mythical homeland of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
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Chapter 1: How Dogma Trumped Science

By Alexander Ewen
The Dating Game
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Sidebar: The Dating Game

By Alexander Ewen
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Introduction

By Alexander Ewen
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Chapter 2: Racism, Eugenics And When Natives Came To America

By Alexander Ewen
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Sidebar: Science and Racism

By Alexander Ewen
Charles Wilson Peale’s 1808 painting, Exhumation of the Mastodon, portrays Peale and his crew digging for fossils in New York State. Like most antiquarians of the day, Peale was a polymath, being one of America’s foremost painters, a politician, as well as solider who fought in the Revolutionary War. Peale would unearth the first complete mastodon skeleton in 1801 and display it in a museum he created in Philadelphia. Since this was long before the orthodoxy took hold, as part of his mastodon exhibit Peale felt free to include an Indian legend; “Of this animal, it is said the following is a Tradition, as delivered in the very terms of a Shawanee Indian.” The tradition began by stating that, “Ten thousand moons ago, when nought but gloomy forests covered this land of the sleeping sun . . . a race of animals were in being, huge as the frowning Precipice. . .“
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Chapter 3: The Theory Becomes a Religious Crusade

By Alexander Ewen
John Wesley Powell's 1891 book, Indian Linguistic Families North of Mexico, presented a map that illustrates some of the astounding diversity in the languages of this hemisphere.
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Sidebar: The Clash of Sciences

By Alexander Ewen
The current mainstream view of Polynesian migration history. The migrations to Australia (in blue) are by separate peoples and occurred 40,000 to 60,000 years ago, indicating that there was some seafaring technology in ancient times.
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Chapter 5: The Theory Comes Crashing Down

By Alexander Ewen
The Ice-Free Corridor
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Chapter 4: The Indisputable Facts in the Artifacts

By Alexander Ewen
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Sidebar: Pseudoscience to the Rescue

By Alexander Ewen
A standard map of the mtDNA haplogroups of the world. Unfortunately, virtually all genetic maps of this type use the pseudoscientific classifications of Indians developed by Joseph Greenberg, making it difficult to assess the validity of their research.
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Chapter 6: DNA, Blood Types and Stereotypes

By Alexander Ewen
North America as seen from a contemporary satellite photo. The only permanent ice sheets left from the last ice age is the one that covers Greenland, along with some small remnants in Canada such as the Barnes Ice Cap.
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Sidebar: The Ice Cap Question

By Alexander Ewen
A new study shows genetic links between skeletons found in Alaska and British Columbia and Indigenous Peoples living there today, backing up oral histories.
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Genetic Continuity Study Backs Up Oral Histories

By Alexander Ewen
Looking south through what was once the “ice-free corridor” in present-day Canada. A new study suggests that humans couldn’t have traversed through the corridor until about 12,600 years ago, thus bringing about the end of the Bering Strait Theory.
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The Death of the Bering Strait Theory

By Alexander Ewen
John A. Ruskamp stands near petroglyphs that he says match ancient Chinese script in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah.
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Were Some Petroglyphs Inspired By Chinese Explorers?

By Alexander Ewen
The Page-Ladson site was found in a bedrock sinkhole more than 26 feet underwater and has been excavated extensively over the past 35 years. It provides evidence that the established scientific dogma regarding the peopling of the Americas is deeply flawed.
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New Research Sinks Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory

By Alexander Ewen
Rosemary Richmond, Akwesasne Mohawk of the Bear Clan, and former executive director of the American Indian Community House in New York City, walked on October 29.
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Urban Indian Leader Rosemary Richmond Walks On

By Alexander Ewen
While primitive in some respects, the face, skull, and teeth show enough modern features to justify H. naledi’s placement in the genus Homo. Artist Gurche spent some 700 hours reconstructing the head from bone scans, using bear fur for hair.
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Did This Recently Discovered, Ancient Human-Like Species Bury Their Dead?

By Alexander Ewen
On Calvert Island, archaeologist Daryl Fedje takes a measurement in a mucky pit while colleague Duncan McLaren records the data.
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13,200-Year-Old Footprints Could Be Oldest in North America, May Support Coastal Route Theory

By Alexander Ewen
The newly released genetic studies have found the strongest relationship between certain Amazonian tribes, such as the Karitiana, Surui, and Xavante, and the Indigenous Peoples of Papua New Guinea, two regions that are coincidentally among the most linguistically diverse in the world. A Xavante village is seen here.
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Two Studies Find Ties Between Native Americans and Australia; Disagree on Everything Else

By Alexander Ewen
An Inuit hut and family photographed from 1868-1952 by Edward S. Curtis. New research indicates that all Inuit peoples originally came from the northernmost part of Alaska.
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Frozen Garden of Eden: Research Says the Inuit Came from Alaska’s North Slope

By Alexander Ewen
The reconstructed face of Naia, who was found in a sinkhole 20 miles north of Tolum.
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Researchers Unveil Reconstructed Face of Ancient American Indian

By Alexander Ewen
This August 2012 photo shows heads at Rano Raraku, the quarry on Easter Island. The sculptures have bodies attached, but they are buried under the dirt and not visible. About 400 moai are here in various stages of carving. A new study indicates that Native Americans visited Easter Island before Columbus sailed to the Americas.
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New Study Shows Native Americans Traveled to Easter Island Before European Contact

By Alexander Ewen
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Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 6: DNA, Blood Types and Stereotypes

By Alexander Ewen
This quartz Clovis spear point was found near the gomphothere bones at El Fin del Mundo, an archaeological site in northwestern Mexico.
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Site Raises New Questions Over Theories of Clovis Culture Origins

By Alexander Ewen
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Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 5: The Theory Comes Crashing Down

By Alexander Ewen
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Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 4: The Indisputable Facts in the Artifacts

By Alexander Ewen
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Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 3: The Theory Becomes a Religious Crusade

By Alexander Ewen
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Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 2: Racism, Eugenics and When Natives Came to America

By Alexander Ewen
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Bering Strait Theory, Pt. 1: How Dogma Trumped Science

By Alexander Ewen
In this February 15, 2010 photo released by 5 Gyres, a coastal area of the Azores Islands in Portugal, is shown littered with plastic garbage.
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Mother Earth Is Drowning in Garbage

By Alexander Ewen
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How Linguists Are Pulling Apart the Bering Strait Theory

By Alexander Ewen
What was very interesting was the Y-chromosome (passed from father to son) results, which was not reported in the press.
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DNA Politics: Anzick Child Casts Doubt on Bering Strait Theory

By Alexander Ewen
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More Reasons to Doubt the Bering Strait Migration Theory

By Alexander Ewen
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Nelson Mandela (1918-2013): The End of an Era

By Alexander Ewen