Who was really the first american?

Question

Over 11,000 years ago was the first american and was found in 1996 and its not the Indians nor Siberians.

Answer 1

It was "Kennewick Man" estimated about 9,300 years ago
Found on the Columbia River. A Northwest Indian Tribe tried to stop the study of his bones because of the Indian Burial regulations. The government denied that request and the bones are suppose to be studied sometime soon. I guess they want to try and find out what nationality he is . . .

Answer 2

The ancestors of both modern Siberians and Native Americans first moved from Asia to North America around 20,000 years ago.

It is even possible that the same ancestral people were making the same journey almost 40,000 years ago, probably by accident when fishing along the coast and islands between the two in canoes - it does not need a land bridge for such people to have made the transition.

Campsites and evidence of stone tools were found in surveys done in 1996; these point to very early migration into the northwest coast of what is now North America. The people responsible are the direct but ancient ancestors of modern Siberians and tribes such as the Nootka, Kwakiutl, Salish, Haida, Tlingit and Makah - if you study the two cultures in detail you will find many exact parallels.

Answer 3

Five years ago we could have said it was the first person over the Great travestine glacier coming out of British Columbia from the Northwest.

Now, with all the new findings in South America, Mexico and even along the Southern California coastline, it would be hard to say except, wait, there's big things coming.

Even along the Labrador and Nova Scotia coastline there's evidence of early man. Early man has been found as far in the Southeast as in the Georgia and Florida swamps, where it was once dry.

The latest is the new Americans came by boat, something unthought of a few years ago, along the Pacific Northwest coastline and then along the Washington Oregon coast. Artifacts have been found by divers in caves as much as 300 feet deep, where the once coastline was 20,000 years ago.

Answer 4

Current theories have it that the ancestors of the present First Nations peoples ("Indians") came over from eastern Asia both by a land bridge and by boat in several "waves" between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago, so your 11,000-year-old was definitely not the first American. There were also some sailors from the Scandinavian countries that landed on the east coast, but they didn't stay all that long.

Answer 5

Well no one qualifies as American until the term was first used to describe American Colonist. Certainly no one in the Latin countries of South America ran around shouting "I ezz ay American.' One could safely argue that with the term first being applied during the early 1700's to describe the by then 4th or more generation of New Englanders or Virginians as Americans ... Thus the first American title rightly goes to someone of either of those colonies and most likely they lived to see the Revolution that cemented to work American.

As for Natives of North & South America most likely their ancestors were Polynesians who traveled from what is now New Guinea into the South Pacif across to Easter Island and then to South America via kick-^ss outrigger canoes.....

Peace.......... o o p p o o p o o

Answer 6

AN ALien Named E.T.
from the Planet Extra Testicles.
Where Testicles grow on the ground....Anyways, he came to this planet to harvest Testicles but accidently crossed the testicles with native earth seeds and made walnuts....TRUE STORY :0)

Answer 7

Who knows? The cavemen probably

Answer 8

me im 117 yr old