Evidence Found of Arctic Hunters Living in Siberia Near New World 30,000 Years Ago

[CloakofStars9]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA5JBE7XOD.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - A people who may have been ancestors of the first Americans lived in Arctic Siberia, enduring one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth at the height of the Ice Age, according to researchers who discovered the oldest evidence yet of humans living near the frigid gateway to the New World.
Russian scientists uncovered a 30,000-year-old site where ancient hunters lived on the Yana River in Siberia, some 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle and not far from the Bering land bridge that then connected Asia with North America.

[Equinox]

Cool!!

Note that if one has any Native american anscestry (such as I do), then there is a good chance you are descended from these people.

-Equinox

[CloakofStars9]

i have native american blood in me :D

[Mnemosyne]

Amazing! I can't imagine living in this region or any other cold region of the world without modern technology such as hot running water and a heater. I definitely would have been one chilly woman.

[iaphoenix]

It's always tempting to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of human history. In many ways we are, but things like this reinforce that our ancestors had a heck of a lot more ingenuity than we tend to give them credit for.

[Equinox]

iaphoenix raises an important point.

Today, many people tend to think of the ancients as stupid. It may be true that some of their best guesses about the world were incorrect, but they were probably on average as intelligent as people today (maybe more so!). They just didn’t have our knowledge base or our fun toys and tools (which we’ve inherited from our recent anscestors).

The stereotypical picture of a caveman is a good example of this (remember “captain caveman”). Come on, Paleolithic and Neolithic people didn’t look like that, and they had religion, art, love, and other parts of human culture as we have today. Our genes are not significantly different over a few thousand years.

-Equinox

[CloakofStars9]

i agree, think of how much we are dependant on machines and electricity now a days
it really makes us look like wimps compared to what our ancestors went through:floating: