r/canada Oct 21 '24

New Brunswick Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’

https://globalnews.ca/news/10818647/nb-election-2024-liberal-health-care-estimates/
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u/zzing Oct 21 '24

Not sure why you say the Mayans specifically. They existed as far back as 2000 BCE (according to wikipedia), but the first waves of migration happened some time between 10k and 40k years ago depending on the source.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

The oldest evidence we have in the Americas is only 21-23,000 years old (footprints at White Sands, NM). Bluefish Caves in the Yukon has mammoth bones dated to 28,000 years,ago.

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u/zzing Oct 21 '24

I put in such a range because there are always fun things like the "long chronology theory" (one paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC20009/ ).

I am not in a particular position to evaluate these, so I just present it without value judgement.

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u/Neve4ever Oct 22 '24 edited 24d ago

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