First hominids to cross ocean waters were not modern humans!

Either Homo Erectus or an early form of Denisovan Homo Sapiens reached Japan and the Philippine Islands by water travel about 370,000 years ago.

Therefore, either hominid was quite capable of island-hopping to the Americas, from either northwestern Europe or eastern Asia.

Meanwhile, the particular mixture of DNA test markers that geneticists label “Amer-Indian” has never been found in Siberia. The public is also not being told that extremely old Australoid, Austronesian, Proto-Sami, Archaic European and Indo-European DNA test markers are being found in human remains in several regions of the Americas. One of the maps I drew denoted locations where a gene carried by Helen of Troy was found in American Indians!

During the past five months, I have been providing various types of graphics support for a genetic scientist-historian, who is re-writing the story of mankind by interpolating the research of avant-garde geneticists around the globe. It is has been a fascinating experience. I have learned so much from these scientists.

For example . . . he asked me to create an accurate 3D computer model of the first Austronesian catamaran, capable of crossing the Pacific with a family, plus their livestock, planting seeds and food supply. I sought help from the Osaka National Museum of Anthropology in Japan, because one of the earliest Lapita (Austronesian) colonies was founded near there by immigrants, who came by catamaran from Taiwan.

This brutish-looking hominid was not so dumb, after all!

The Lapita thing was old hat . . . what Japanese anthropologists are trying to fathom right now is how Homo Erectus could have navigated the stormy Sea of Japan in sufficiently high numbers to populate the Japanese Islands 370,000 years ago!

About 370,000 years ago, North America was  experiencing a period of significant glacial activity, with widespread ice sheets covering large portions of the continent, particularly in the northern regions.  Ocean levels would have been lower than today, but not to the extent of 15,000 years in the last Glacial Epoch.

The Bering Land Bridge did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, less than 10,000 years before the height of the last ice age (known as the Last Glacial Maximum)

This educational video was just posted yesterday. It is factual and well-crafted.