Coming to America 美洲的起源 (标题好难翻q^q) WHO WERE THE FIRST NEW WORLD'S SETTLERS? 谁是新世界的第一批居民？ Columbus may not have been the first transatlantic voyager. A colletion of Ice Age stone tools has sparked a debate over the origins of the New World's first inhabitants, changing the way we think about human migration , innovation, and history. 哥伦布可能不是第一个横渡大西洋的航海家。冰河时期石器的发现，引起了对於 新世界第一批居民起源的争论，也改变了我们原先所了解的人类迁徙、创造以及 历史。 For more than four centuries we've believed that America's native peoples came from Asia: biological traits link them to those in Mongolia and China. The obvious route was from easternmost Siberia across the Bering Strait some 25,000 to 10,000 years ago into Alaska and then south. 四个多世纪以来，我们都相信美洲原住民来自亚洲：生物学性状显示他们与蒙古人 及中国人有关连性。最明显的途径是约莫两万五千至一万年前，从最东端的西伯利亚 跨越白令海峡到阿拉斯加，再往南方。 But a new book, Across Atlantic Ice, suggests that America's first explorers came not from Asia but from Europe. The authors, Dennis Stanford and Brice Bradley, point out that spearheads and knives made from pressure-flaked flint found throughout the U.S. have no correlation with those found in Siberia, or even Alaska. 但是最近一本新书《穿越大西洋坚冰》提到，美洲的第一名探勘者是来自欧洲而非 亚洲。作者丹尼斯．史丹佛与布鲁斯．布雷德利指出，在美国发现以压力片状打火石 制成的矛头和刀具，与在西伯利亚发现的器具并无相关性，遑论阿拉斯加。 Yet they do resemble tools made by the Solutreans, who lived 24,000 years ^^^^^^^^^^ ago in France and Spain. Across Atlantic Ice hypothesizes that this stone-tool technology crossed the Atlantic, probably by a succession of short voyages from Spain, past Ireland, and Greenland along the edges of the glacial ice pack. 然而，两万四千年前存在於法国及西班牙的索鲁特恩人，制造的器具与这些石器相似。 《穿越大西洋坚冰》书中推测石器技术是横渡大西洋来的，可能从西班牙、旧爱尔兰 以及沿着格陵兰岛的冰川边缘，经过一连串许多的短途航行而来。 ( 查过 Solutreans 但是资料蛮少的，看起来像是某个民族所以先音译翻来..。 最後一句也不晓得这样翻是否与原文有出入，请高手们指教QQ ) The Journal of Field Archaeology has opened up a discussion. "We can no longer assume that we know the timing of early migrations to the New World, any more than their frequency, their points of origin, or their mode of traversing land and sea," says the publication. "We must now look at the archaeology record without prejudice." --Norman Hammond 《田野考古期刊》开始这项讨论。「我们再也不能假装知道早期移民至新世界的时间 ，甚至是迁徙的次数、起源处，或是他们穿越大陆与横渡海洋的方式。」出版社表示。 「现在我们必须客观地来看待考古记录了。」 文：诺曼．哈蒙德 感觉许多地方还是不太通顺...麻烦板友不吝指教了 >_<;;; --

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