Tantalizing Clues In Ancient Mounds (Japan/Jomon)

Asahi News ^ | 5-4-2005 | Asahi Shimbun

[Wudan Master]

Thanks

now I will digest, with pleasure, this wonderful piece of information

[uglybiker]

Jomon type 'cord' marked pottery has been found in Olmec ruins in Mexico.

See!! The Jomon outsourced their pottery industry to Mexico and look what happened to them! They're gone!!!

< /sarcasm >

[blam]

"See!! The Jomon outsourced their pottery industry to Mexico and look what happened to them! They're gone!!!"

Nah. The Jomon went to Mexico, here and read.

[blam]

You may find this book informative. Below is an excerpt from the book review:

"I suspect that readers unfamiliar with modern human evolution will find the genetic tree of the world's populations on page 119 intriguing. The diagram shows, for example, that Northeast Asians are more closely related to Europeans than Northeast Asians are to Southeast Asians.

For as rapidly advancing a science as human population genetics, it should not be surprising that some findings are dated. Recent evidence suggests, for instance, that North Asians descended from both southern China populations that gradually migrated northward as well as Caucasian populations that migrated eastward, so that some genetic mixing all across North Asia took place and is the source of the observed racial connections between North Asians and Caucasians."

[Cronos]

Blam, may I know if you have any theories regarding how a caucasian-looking people (the JOMON, and the AINU) come to be living in Japan, which is so far away from Europe ???

Well, the simplest explanation is that the Caucasian looking peoples came into Europe from the East, most likely from central asia-Eastern Iran-Western India. From Central Asia, the distance to Japan would be pretty much the same as the distance to England

[Cronos]

Off to a Michael Jackson thread to empty it...

That's a good one -- I wonder what race Mikey belongs to? He ain't black or white or brown or red or anything. hmmm........ ;-P

[SunkenCiv]

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