Wouldn't such populations be more likely found in Washington or BC? Hell of a long way to Ecuador.
Kind of like the "Viking remains" found in Minnesota. Lot of work to struggle inland for such a distance.
I think it is unlikely they crossed the ocean in a linear fashion. More likely they used the Japanese current and roughly followed the North American coast and then down into Central America.
must read tomorrow jomon
We've seen a much more recent 'explanation' for Sa'ami genes in the Americas where another group with related ancestry, managed to cross Beringia with the ancestors of the Indians back then ~ and I think the guy even used the Jomon pottery as part of his evidence.
Will dig that one up ~
Over time there have been thousands of large Pacific tsunamis that explain all Transpacific movements of East Asians to the Americans. They didn't need to walk ~ just a debris field. Thought it interesting archaeologists had been saying the ocean currents weren't sufficient to get folks from there to here, yet those currents were able to move an entire floating dock unit from Japan to Oregon!
More importantly, the ancestors of the culture bearers among the Polynesians, the Okinawans, Taiwanese, non-Jomon Japanese, as well as the Philippinos came from the same place in China across the strait from Taiwan. The land there gradually sinks ~ the people had to learn to use satisfactory boats to continue to live among the islands and raise wheat ~ rice not being capable of being farmed there.
The Sa'ami arrived far earlier!
Japanese in South America 6000 yrs ago ping
I remember [yes, I am that old] when I read an article in a popular news magazine (Time?) about how the LASER was fascinating but was currently “a solution looking for a problem to solve.” Similarly, the solution of the DNA puzzle in 1953 by Watson & Crick (and Franklin) was regarded as a scientific triumph but of little import outside the field that became biochemistry.
Now like the LASER, DNA has revolutionized fields from genetics to criminology!
Irrelevant. Better would be They would not accept any "amount of evidence." There's a difference.
The ubiquity of pyramids is because the pyramid is the structure that is a natural for tall buildings when you don’t have steel for beams and girders. You stack one layer on another. Experience early teaches that the second and subsequent layers must be of progressively less area in order for it to not disintegrate around the sides. You either build it with step sides or you fair it to smooth. Rulers always want to get above their subjects or so place their gods with whom they identify. When agricultural people have enough surplus to support rulers in idleness those rulers magnify themselves and pyramids are the natural structures to reach up to heaven.
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