The Beginning

[AquaTech]

Seeing as how this is the first post on The Proving Grounds (unless I'm horribly mistaken), I'll stay on topic and discuss the origins of Native Americans. (What, you were expecting something else? )

Many people believe the Middle East to be the "cradle of life." That our first steps as humans were taken in Babylonia, or present day Iraq. This can be called into question, however, when the topic of the "Native Americans" comes up. If the Eurasian countries are where life originated and first flourished, and Christopher Columbus was the first Spaniard to reach the New World, how did the Native Americans greet him at the beach?

Well, people used to believe Native Americans came during the last ice age, when the sea level was low enough that there was a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. But I'm in the camp that thinks island hopping is how they slowly migrated to the New World. By "they" I mean the ancient Siberians; Koreans, Chinese, but mostly Mongolians. As they slowly populated islands, they would move on to the next, until they finally made their way to present day Alaska, Canada, and the USA.

Your thoughts.

 

[Ori_bro]

This is a great topic and I agree with u but this is what ive learned.....

They say that the craddle of life is the middle east but science (dont quote me for a source i remember this from western civs) shows us that life started in Africa. The early people split up into two groups, one went towards the western coast and settled yet others kept moving north along the coast. They eventually settled Europe. The other group went up through the sinai peninsula, settled and others kept moving, settling west Europe until they reached Asia. They then spread through Asia some went up into Russia while others towards India and SE Asia. The ones that went to Russia then came across the Bering Straight (potentially unknowing because they were following their food source )and entered a new world. They then traveled down the west coast and traveled inland and there they are when the Europeans arrive. Back to the SE Asia people. They most likely Island hopped and every generation made it to a new island. they eventually made it to South America and spread throughout and even came north to Mexico. This is what ive learned and im willing to hear your's and other's opinion

 

[.Marik]

I believe that human life originated in Africa...

And depending on their immediate surroundings and the environment, that's how Asians/Blacks/Whites etc...etc... got thier facial and physical attributes.

 

[GwJ]

I agree with MarikYoshi. Personally, I believe that when humans first appeared on the face of this planet, they started out as relatively tan homosapians (sp?). From there they migrated to other regions due to lack of shelter to the growing population, lack of food, curiosity and what-have-you. After that, the first to adapt were those that first appeared, the Africans. Their skin grew dark. After that happened, those that migrated to colder regions that got less sunlight got ligher skin, and those that migrated to more hot places but not excessively sunny got tannish skin.

Those are just my thoughts.

 

[Yoshi-Kirby]

I always thought that humans first originated in Africa. The things that I learned was that Austrolapethices (sp) were the first early humans. They eventually evolved into later humans, some examples being Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus, and spread to wider areas, including Europe and Asia. Then, that Ice Bridge theory happened, about the land bridge between North America and South America. They settled in North America, and spread even further into some parts in South America. Eventually, Columbus came, and saw the Natives, which were these early humans mentioned above, that just migrated to North America all the way from Africa.

 

[:mad:]

Most of what my school taught me was told as truth, I thought about it for a long time during class. I still believe the Vikings from so many years back were actually heavily populated in Northeastern Canada.

It's highly possibly that people from Old Asia migrated over the Berin Land Bridge. (I'm going to laugh if I got that name wrong, excuse me if I did.) I believe they actually followed large game over the land bridge, and ended up in North America by accident.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

I thought that the earliest found remains "Lucy" I believe, were found in Africa, and then from there people either stayed there or moved up through what is now Saudi Arabia into the Middle East. From there people either stayed in the "cradle of life" between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers it what is now Iran and Iraq as someone mentioned. The first real civilization was developed there, gosh I forgot the name... But yeah so from there people moved over into Rome, Greece etc. and elsewhere moved up from the Middle East through China and Mongolia and what is now Russia up into Siberia as others said, and than over to Alaska and down through Canada, whereas Columbus's ancestors were the people who went West up from the Middle East, and the Native Americans went East and up the way I stated earlier.

Another possible theory, I don't know how valid it is though, is that when South America was connected to Africa, as it clearly was once, and people moved from Africa into South America and up through Mexico into the what is now the U.S.

Personally I believe that the first thing I said is more valid, because that would better explain the Inuits throughout Canada, in this case as people who stopped or branched out more after crossing into Alaska while the rest moved South.

Just some ideas to throw out there.

 

[Vorguen]

This is an interesting topic. No matter how you look at it, you get the question, how did they get to this side of the planet?

You can argue where life started in many ways. Taking the religious standpoint that says life started in the Garden of Eden (which is believed to be as many have said in the Middle East)

Well, just to argue the religious standpoint (since I know about this and it hasn't been brought up), Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel. Abel was killed at the hand of Cain, who was banished. So there we know that even under religious belief people were inevitably expanding and going farther out into the land.

So now it raises the question, well at this point in religious timelines, people can create boats, and large ones too (Noah). It is very pheasable to believe that anyone could have travelled from Asia to North America during this time, whether or not the Bering Strait existed.

This is just how humans could have travelled to and populated North America if life happened exactly as the Christian Bible says it did.