Yikes. I do apologize. I didn't mean to send that to the Gardeners list, but it was to have been offline. I am sorry. But look at the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, plus the breadth of South America to get to the Amazon, versus the Atlantic, from Africa to Brazil. I don't argue with the dates, just the route taken. Margaret >Hello, Margaret, > >I think there is a fair degree of validity to those claims. There are >archeological digs in Brazil that far outdate the arrival of peoples >over the land bridge from Asia. And DNA evidence, in the case of those >sisters, is pretty hard to refute. > >I'd like to see more research done in this area, which has had >archeologists baffled for ages (i.e. the great age of the materials >found in Brazil.) > >This is the second piece I have seen on DC on this topic, which I >believe we say on the Discovery Civilization or Discovery Science >Channels. > >Ron