New Discovery Puts Humans in South America 22,000 Years Ago

Fascinating article...

Researchers here say they have unearthed stone tools proving that humans reached what is now northeast Brazil as early as 22,000 years ago. 

Their discovery adds to the growing body of research upending a prevailing belief of 20th-century archaeology in the United States known as the Clovis model, which holds that people first arrived in the Americas from Asia about 13,000 years ago.

“If they’re right, and there’s a great possibility that they are, that will change everything we know about the settlement of the Americas...

Read more and see video here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-on-humans-arrival-in-the-americas.html?_r=0

See more interesting articles here...
http://ajarnmike.blogspot.ca/search/label/Native%20Americans

Do Foreign Jokes Work in English?

 

People tell a joke in their own language and then translate it into English....Is the joke lost in translation, check it out...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/best-jokes-young-people-around-world

 

War, street and Travel Pics 2014

In Syria, Three Years of War
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/in-syria-three-years-of-war/100701/

2014 Sony World Photography Awards

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/winners-of-the-2014-sony-world-photography-awards-part-i/100700/

And a really good documentary on street photography...(easy to download it)...here's the trailer... 

Everybody Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwjal7Dk2As

Carnival 2014 Around the World

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/carnival-2014-around-the-world/100691/