-Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9907/02/t_t/old.south.dig/index.html Bonanza of ice-age artifacts redefine America's pre-history July 2, 1999 ALLENDALE, South Carolina (CNN) -- A virtual gold mine of ice-age artifacts recently found on the banks of the Savannah River in South Carolina is forcing archeologists to revise theories for how and when humans first migrated to North America. Al Goodyear with the University of South Carolina oversaw the dig, which involved dozens of volunteers and scientists. "I think what is tantalizing about this site is we may have different cultures coming into the New World that we didn't even know about," he says. From the artifacts uncovered at this site, such as crude stone tools, archeologists say it is reasonable to believe that humans could have lived in the area anywhere from 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. That time frame defies the long-held "Clovis" theory that humans only reached the New World on a land path from Asia. Now there is stronger ammunition that others may have come from Southeast Asia or Europe, much earlier than 11,000-year-old artifacts found in Clovis, New Mexico, suggest. "This is an extremely important New World site in deciphering when people came to North America," Goodyear says. Digs in Monte Verde, Chile; West Virginia, Virginia; Pennsylvania and now South Carolina all suggest cultures older than 12,000 years. "This is so far the star of the show, what we refer to as a measuring pit microblade," says Dennis Stanford, a Smithsonian Institution anthropologist. Sean Maroney is a graduate student who worked on the dig. "The discoveries are not as sexy as human bones or animal skulls," says Maroney. "But they do provide insight about our tough-as-nails ancestors." Maroney showed a stick with a rock mounted on it. "Arm yourself with a stick and a rock on it and think about going after an African elephant," he says. "It's gonna give you a real appreciation for what these people did and how they had to survive." Goodyear and his colleagues have worked on this site since 1983, but this year's discoveries could pay off with a re-writing of history. Correspondent Marsha Walton contributed to this report. RELATED STORIES: Ancient bones may rewrite theory of earliest Americans June 8, 1999 http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9906/08/ancient.woman/ Ancient California bones could change land-bridge theory April 11, 1999 http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/11/ancient.woman/index.html � 1999 Cable News Network. All Rights Reserved. ~~~~~~~ http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=kLbxCL3p&atm o=99999999&pg=/et/99/11/10/wbri10.html First Americans were Britons who went west By Ben Fenton Wednesday 10 November 1999 www.telegraph.co.uk ISSUE 1629 ANCIENT Britons may have been the first settlers of America 16,000 years before Columbus was born, according to a new theory about the origin of native American peoples. For most of this century it has been accepted that the original Americans were Ice Age hunters who crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska some time before 9,500 BC. But recent excavations from Chile to Pennsylvania have led many archaeologists to reject this view as too simple. They now believe that America was colonised by ancient peoples coming from several directions. Artefacts found in Cactus Hill, Virginia, and at Meadowcroft, Pennsylvania, have similarities to European objects and are being seen as evidence that Europeans arrived over the frozen areas of the North Atlantic at the southern edge of the Laurentide Ice Sheet as long ago as 14,000 BC. A skull found at Kennewick, Washington, in 1997 suggested that American Indians could have had European ancestors. The closest human settlements in Europe to this northerly route would have been the occupants of what are now the British Isles. Other revisions of the Bering Strait theory indicate that peoples from the west Pacific travelled by boat along the west shores of Canada and as far south as Chile, where 12,500-year-old sites have been found. One group of archaeologists, citing a skull which had Melanesian features common in Aborigines today, has suggested that some of these ancient travellers may even have arrived from Australia. 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