Remember the Ice Man, “Otzi,” the Copper Age traveler from 3300 B.C. whose fairly well-preserved body two German tourists found in 1991 in the melting snow of the Italian-Austrian Alps?
I’m wondering, if the Earth’s glaciers and snow caps are melting so quickly today, and I believe they are, why aren’t we finding more of these ancient hunters and hikers?
My guess is, we’d learn a ton about pre-Columbus American history if we could find examples of the humans who traveled from Asia to America 25,000 years ago. They wandered from Siberia into Alaska across the Bering “land bridge,” which really was a massive wilderness about 1,000 miles wide, its exposure the result of lower ocean levels when the Ice Age was sucking up so much water for glaciers.
Truth is out there. Who were those first Americans? We often ask today. It seems that, with global warming and DNA analysis, we have a real chance to find out. Is anyone looking?
Frank Warner
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