Where Did The First Americans Come From?

At some point, humans made their way to America. When did this happen, and how can we confirm the date?


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Evolution of Modern Humans
“All people today are classified as Homo sapiens. Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 200,000 years ago in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals.”

Genome analysis pins down arrival and spread of first Americans
“An international team of researchers compared the genomes of 31 living Native Americans, Siberians and people from Oceania with 23 ancient Native American genomes to establish a timeline for the arrival and spread of Amerindian populations.”
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[Blue-jdjf]

People are dumb when they think only Canada and the USA have Native Americans. The indigenous people or Native Americans live in North America, Central America and South America. They spoke different languages and have different cultures but are of the same DNA...Mississippians, Aztecs, Maya and Inca. Then Europeans invaded and colonized the Americas, and North American Natives now speak French and English because France and England colonized North America, while the Natives in Central America and South America speak Spanish and Portuguese because Spain and Portugal colonized those parts. Yet in Canada and USA the population of Native Americans decreased more drastically, leaving North America mostly white, where as in Central America and South America the Native populations are very large, countries like Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador have large Native American blood lines. Those brown "Latinos" you see walking in your cities streets, are actually Natives, not Spaniards

[metalhead]

This is one of the reasons why history and science were my favorite subjects in school.

[unknownsoldierpiratewhip]

This is because human civilization is much older than we're told.

[officialsp]

I am African American, and I did one of those genealogy tests and discovered I was sixty percent Australian Aborigine. This explains a lot, thank you.

[toohazey]

I like how everyone below ignored the Australian aboroginals part

[nesiannnblue]

I am Melanesian and had no idea that my ancestors made it all the way to the Americas! That really says a lot as to how great of a seafaring people we Pacific Islanders are.

[padussia]

This explains why my aunt told me that my great-grandmother was half Native American and I look Chinese. Thanks for the info.

[FaberGeronimo]

I AM A DESCENDANT OF THE YUMAN AND HOHOKAM. MY DAD IS A (HUALAPAI) MY MOTHER IS A (YAVAPAI APACHE) 👍🏽👍🏽 🇺🇸

[dpravin]

It's not New World it's just a pre-exisiting land....
If a group of people don't know something doesn't mean the thing is new...
Why always think the euro way...

[snoochiiboochiis]

I’m 3/5 Native American and most people I've met always assumed I was Asian, and I thought that was stupid. I do have small slanted eyes, but that's about it, and then I was walking through the mall and saw a mirror (Which I didn't know was a mirror.) and thought that Asian girl is wearing the same thing as me. And then I looked again and said ”oh wait.... that's me.”

[animekat]

My mother (she's native American btw) took a DNA test and we were surprised to see that she has DNA from Turkish people, Serbian dna and DNA from Kazakhstan. And DNA from Micronesia, as well as Taiwan, she did have less Spanish blood than we thought and more Italian/Greek.

[MrToddChris]

The theories about peopling of the world is now and has always been greatly tainted by politics.

[ArcWelder]

I'm from African, Indian (Sikh) and Amerindian (Waraus) descent.
I was born in Venezuela and grew up in Guyana.
In school we were thought about the bering strait.

Clovis points were found in Serpentine (Alaska), New Mexico (America) and El Cayude (Venezuela).

But what's really interesting is, aside from spear points and arrow heads, the Amerindian peoples look a lot like Asians.
There are 9 tribes in Guyana and all of the tribes share a similar physical feature with the different Asians.

[jumpinshrimp]

It isn't mind boggling to believe people in oceana have used boats and arrived in the new world. Their means of traveling was by boat. Also New Zealand has an underwater continent that was exposed at one point making travel over the Pacific a little more easier.

[google_admin]

This is why sometimes I couldn't tell Asian, full blooded Native American and Mexican who has less features of Spanish apart.

[akiranara]

It's still not well known, but original Japanese - Nihon Sojin- crossed Akebono sea to Kyusyu island far west from Tokyo in about 40, 000 BP. They’d prevailed almost over Japanese archipelago up to north, Hokkaido island by 30, 000 BP. Paleolithic sites and artifacts in Japan clearly indicate this. They, sea tribe, didn’t stop in Hokkaido naturally and continued prevailing to American continent along Bering seashore of “Kelp highway”. Cold water of North Pole was stopped by Beringia and Bering sea was really connected to sea of Hawaii at that era. Eve, made from bones of young woman by new technology, found in Mexico this time seems to be a descendant of Nihon Sojin.

[rutger]

Am I the only one who isn't suprised by this at all? Is a 1000 years really that long for that distance? Imagine how far a single generation can settle, let alone 40 generations.

[kmeccat]

"mixing with the locals"

So they weren't the first.. people--the "locals" were.

WHO were "the locals" where did they come from... ??

[jaimie]

I find it very interesting that DNews is taking sides in what is an unsettled debate right now. Two papers, one in _Nature_ and one in _Science_, were published at the same time and put forth conflicting theories to answer the question of where that pesky Australasian genetic link in the Amazon (and nowhere else in the Americas) came from.

The _Nature_ team thinks that Population Y came over sometime in ancient times, while the _Science_ team thinks Population Y came over much later. Additionally there are even more theories that could explain the Australasian link. It is far from settled.

[matthewmann]

Yes Native Americans are Mongoloids but they are separate from Far Eastern, Alaska Native, Polynesian, Oceanian, South Asian, Native Caribbean, and Central Asian Mongoloids