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Two Crossings On Opposite Sides Of The Earth: Putting Our Ancient Origins In Perspective
I studied four years of Spanish in college, and one thing you learn is that Spain is exciting culturally and historically; It is on the Iberian Peninsula which sticks out into the ocean, meaning everyone sailed by it. An example, the Japanese gave them the fans (abanicos) and castanets used in their flamenco. And, the Arabs crossed into there bringing libraries and mathematics to Europe. It might be considered “the gateway of the renaissance”. I know little about archaeology, but I read Lucy by Donald Johanson, which details his discovery of Lucy, one of the earliest predecessors to humans and he writes it by telling the entire history of paleoarchaeology, starting with Raymond Dart, to the Leakey’s to today. Modern paleoarchaeology is often considered to have begun with Raymond Dart’s 1924 discovery of the Taung Child (Australopithecus africanus) in South Africa, which provided the first evidence for Africa as the cradle of human evolution. Being from the Americas, I am, of course, interested in the bridge that brought the Siberians into the Americas leading to the Native Americans. Being interested in Spanish History, archaeology of the Americas, and paleoarchaeology out of interest in human origins, I began to ask DeepSeek and Chat Gpt about two similar things on opposite sides of the Earth, the Bering Land Bridge and The Straight of Gibraltar, that are the same thing as they are “crossings” in hopes of connecting the disparate. After having a conversation with Deep Seek and Chat Gpt, we came up with the following essays…******************************************************************************************