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.
NATIVE AMERICAN LEGENDS Pueblo Indians-Oldest Culture in the U.S. The Pueblo Indians, situated in the Southwestern United States, are one of the oldest cultures in the nation. Their name is Spanish for stone masonry village dweller.