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Philip Deitiker <Nopdeitik@att.net.Spam> wrote in message news:<Xns94C967498A869prd@128.249.2.19>...
> In sci.anthropology.paleo,          Lee Olsen created a message ID
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> > The Canadian government  has been sifting mud off the Queen Charlottes
> > and so far 9300 B.P. is the best they can do for a path.
> > Human remains on Prince of Wales Island is a little older at about
> > 10,000 B.P. These dates are no older than inland dates.
>
> This is not fair in the sense that the coverage of archaeological sites
> above sea level is probably 10E3 to 10E6 more active than those between
> -200 and -350 MSL where one would expect the most prominent sites to be.

Not if the inland sites have been altered also, mainly by melt water
from the glaciers.

> The canadian govenment can scour all they want, but unless sea levels
> drop by 350 I really don't expect you will see any -MSL recoveries of any
> early dates.

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF15/1579.html

http://gom.nrcan.gc.ca/pdf/PDF_Day1/Barrie_Regional%20Mapping_Queen-Charlotte-Basin.pdf

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Quest.html
"Although researchers have cored and dated numerous resource-rich
coastal zones in the Queen Charlotte Islands region that would have
made excellent early habitation sites, many sites are now drowned and
difficult to access. Nevertheless, definitive evidence of early
coastal migrants may not be long in coming."

"In December 2003, some of the co-authors and others published an
article in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences that reveals hundreds of
kilometers of reconstructed paleocoastlines that coincide with
present-day exposed land. It is along these landscapes that possible
early archaeological sites may be located."

As you can see by the URLs, they aren't going about this in a
haphazard manner and not all Pleistocene coastal areas are under 300 m
of water.

> But the facts still stand. By HLA and looking at the diversification of
> HLA in south america, The lowland south american population appears to be
> the oldest,

By how much? What other groups is this compared against?

> and when compared to other peoples of the world these have
> the best matches with Ryukyuans and the non-Kor components within
> Japanese, both peoples had probably the top-level maritime capability,
> definable by 28kya.
>
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> Philip
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