Other routes from other lands may have brought other migrants. These
routes are not so fanciful as the paths from Atlantis and Mu, but they
have had few advocates. M. R. Harrington has mentioned the possibility
that Magdalenian man of Glacial or Postglacial Europe may have crossed
from Europe to Canada by way of Iceland and Greenland and various ice-
and land-bridges to father the Eskimo.[18] Ellsworth Huntington adds to
the land-bridge over Bering Strait “wind-bridges” across the middle
Atlantic.[19] Like Father de Acosta, he believes that storms may have
blown occasional vessels to the New World. To suggest that unwilling
mariners from the Mediterranean may thus have made oneway trips, he
cites from Stansbury Hagar[20] striking resemblances between the zodiacs
of Europeans and of the Mayas, Aztecs, and even Peruvians. Whether this
matter of the zodiacs is fact or fancy, Huntington’s unwilling voyagers
could not have come much earlier than the birth of Christ. More
fantastic were the claims voiced some years ago that the men who left
skulls of Australoid or Melanesian type in the caves of South America
reached that continent by a southern route across an Antarctic bridge of
land and ice. Of much more serious importance is the possibility that
the long-voyaging Polynesians, having negotiated the 5,000 or 6,000
miles that lay between their home on the edge of Asia and the Marquesas
or Easter Island, would have tried occasionally to continue their
eastward course. If they had done so, they could scarcely have missed
South America. But this was in our own era, not in the time of early
man.
Ware Dogma!
[Illustration: GLACIERS AND ICE FIELDS AS BARRIERS TO EARLY MAN
_These maps follow the outlines of the continent today, and so do
not show the land-bridge from Alaska to Siberia that existed in
varying extent throughout the entire Wisconsin period. The maps
indicate tentatively how the great white ice fields may have
appeared to different areas at different times, producing an effect
of shifting from west to east and then back across the continent.
Drawn in 1936, the first three maps probably show too little ice in
arctic Canada and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland
region. (After Antevs; the first three in Gladwin, 1937, the fourth
from data furnished by Antevs.)_]
[Illustration: Wisconsin glaciation 65,000 years ago]
[Illustration: Wisconsin glaciation 50,000 years ago]
[Illustration: Wisconsin glaciation 15,000 years ago]
[Illustration: Wisconsin glaciation 10,000 years ago]
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