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Show Men Lived Here 15.000YearsAo' North America Peopled by Two Migration Waves I Out of Asia. WASHINGTON. The New world ' ui :.;i!-e:i:;y was peopled by ma-, ma-, jur migration waves out of Asia, i There have been human beings in North America for about 15,000 years. Those were conclusions presented by Smithsonian institution scientists in a general review of North American prehistory. Dr. Swanton himself is an authority author-ity on the migrations and contracts of Indian tribes before and after the coming of Columbus, and with efforts to trace similarities among languages. It now is fairly conclusive, reported report-ed Dr. T. D. Stewart, that two different dif-ferent basic stocks were represented represent-ed in the aboriginal population. One was characterized by long, high heads and broad noses. This type skull predominate s in those sites which were settled first. Later sites yield skulls of a broad headed j people. All of Mongolian Descent. "Long before the coming of the whites, it is pointed out, the two types had more or less fused. Both belonged to the Mongolian race, as does the present day Indian," said a bulletin of the Smithsonian institution. institu-tion. "A few years ago it was generally believed that man was a relatively recent arrival in North America. Finds of human artifacts in geologic strata which can tentatively be dated and in association with the bones of extinct animals have forced a revision of this doctrine. Man has almost certainly been on the continent, conti-nent, it is explained by Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., since the closing days of the last ice age. "The remains are so few and scattered scat-tered that the historical picture remains re-mains very confused. A broad outline out-line is that late in the pleistocene geologic period there was an ice-free ice-free corridor from the arctic through Canada east of the Rockies by which bands of hunters were able to penetrate far to the southward. Corridor Eventually Closed. "Later, it now appears, this corridor corri-dor was closed by some fluctuation in the ice sheet and perhaps after a long interval other groups began coming southward west of the Rockies. I "It is now apparent, reports David I. Bushness Jr., that -the Indians encountered by the English colonists in the Virginia area, were far from constituting the 'first families of Virginia.' Vir-ginia.' They had been preceded, perhaps per-haps for several thousand years, by various peoples whose scattered artifacts are being dug up over much of the state. "Among the most perplexing problems prob-lems of all is that afforded by the multiplicity of Indian languages. All differ in vocabulary and several differ dif-fer even more profoundly in language lan-guage structure. This difficult field is dealt with by Dr. John P. Harrington Har-rington of the bureau of ethnology staff who maintains the hypothesis that all are derived from an original common mother language. This differentiation, dif-ferentiation, however, may not have taken place in North America." |