Who was here first?

Question

who were the very first people on earth and where did they dome from (what country) ??

Who were the first people in the US

Answer 1

well... you would have to define people, but most of our ancestors (providing you believe in evolution as I do) originated in Africa and slowly made their way north into Europe and Asia. As to North America, the ancient peoples crossed over from Russia to where Alaska is today over the landbridge that used to be there.

Answer 2

Africa for the first human-like remains. Whether you believe in evolution or not, this is where all of the Homo-species' oldest remains are found (Sapiens Sapiens, Sapiens, Erectus, Habilus, etc...).

As for the US, the oldest skeletons are around New Mexico, dated approximately 13,000 years ago. The speculation is that people were here much earlier, but we simply haven't found their remains. Regardless, the Beringia Land Bridge is proving more and more to be a myth: water levels could not have dropped that much for people to cross by foot (over 50 metres, which is impossible).

It is now suspected that peoples from what is now eastern Russia, Japan, and other islands in that region followed ocean currents on crude water craft. It is well known that those people were sophisticated fisherpeople, and frequently travelled the open ocean (based upon where there remains are found in Asia). The watercraft theory also helps explain why populations took so long to migrate across the entire continent: it took 10,000 years for people to move from the West Coast to the far reaches of the East Coast.

Answer 3

I will agree with the above, that most of the earliest ancestors originated in Africa. The oldest fossils and human remains have come from the Great Rift Valley. However, when it comes to North America, the oldest dozen skeletons found, the Kinnewick Man from Washington for example, all had Caucasian features and therefore they were European in origin. The movement from Asia was much larger and longer in duration so they over-whelmed the Caucasians and displaced them. There is also, in S. America, some suggestion that they were populated initially from the Polynesian Islands.

Answer 4

Grog of the Cave Bear Clan was dubbed "first person in the US" by the elders of the tribe for his being the first to cross the Bering Strait ice bridge in the Year 56,563 BC....