Without further research it is impossible to know if the town is named after Christopher Columbus or the goddess Columbia. How the District of Columbia gots its name. On the first map of the city of Washington by federal city planner Pierre L'Enfant it was called the Permanent Seat of the Government.
Other scientists have argued that human beings originated in Africa before moving to other regions 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. Homo sapiens discovered in Middle Awash, Ethiopia, from 160,000 years ago were believed to be the oldest 'modern' human beings.Other remains previously found in Israeli caves are thought to have been more recent and 80,000 to 100,000 years old.he findings of Professor Avi Gopher and Dr Ran Barkai of the Institute of Archeology at Tel Aviv University, published last week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, suggest that modern man did not originate in Africa as previously believed, but in the Middle East.
The DNA of a baby boy who was buried in Montana 12,600 years ago has been recovered, and it provides new indications of the ancient roots of today's American Indians and other native peoples of the Americas.It's the oldest genome ever recovered from the New World.Artifacts found with the body show the boy was part of the Clovis culture, which existed in North America from about 13,000 years ago to about 12,600 years ago and is named for an archaeological site near Clovis, N.M.oyle, a member of the Crow tribe, said the indication of such ancient roots for American Indians fits with what many tribal people already believed. He said plans are underway to rebury the boy's remains at the site after the winter.