Posted on 09/24/2006 7:25:30 PM PDT by blam
DNA Ties Together Scattered Peoples
Data on descendants of the Chumash spur new ideas about the first settlers of the Americas.
By Steve Chawkins, Times Staff Writer
September 11, 2006
Over the years, a couple of dozen descendants of the Chumash Indians have complied with the odd requests of their old friend John Johnson, a leading scholar of the tribe's culture and head of the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. After all, what harm could come from parting with a few of their hairs or letting him swab the inside of their cheeks for a saliva sample?
What emerged from Johnson's DNA studies are tantalizing clues that link some of today's Chumash with settlers of coastal regions from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego more than 10,000 years ago.
"It's mind-boggling," said Ernestine De Soto, a 68-year-old nurse whose rare strain of DNA matches that found in ancient remains thousands of miles from the Santa Barbara area, where her family has lived for centuries. "I've always known I was Chumash, but this is something else."
Johnson's work, along with studies by archeologists and geneticists nationwide, adds more strong evidence to a theory that challenges long-held assumptions about when and how the first Americans arrived.
Ever since it was articulated by a 16th century Spanish missionary to South America, the prevailing theory has been that the first inhabitants of the Americas were big-game hunters who crossed a 1,000-mile land bridge from Asia, slogging down into the Great Plains through an inland corridor created by receding glaciers.
A number of scientists believe some may have trudged from Asia and then built boats that, over hundreds of generations, took them to spots where they put down roots along the length of the Pacific Coast.
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Your statement is vague. Do you mean all of this is untrue? If that's what you think, please educate us. We await your superior wisdom.
More examples of the bad things associated with Gorebal Warning? - An INVASION from Russia and China. Weee'rrrrrr DOOMMMMED!
Actually the "land bridge" was probably an ice bridge...
That seems like a rather advanced understanding of things for a 16th century missionary.
Uh, and the land bridge was 1000 miles long?
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I am going to have my DNA checked and this place is in Houston. Thanks for posting it.
This evidence would substantiate the claim that these people are descendants of Noah's son, Shem!
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They do good work - if correct I am one of Moses' nephews 3000 years removed.
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Maybe not Moses, but certainly, you are a grand child, several generations removed, of Noah.
As I understand plate tectonics, the continents have been separating at Atlantic ocean, not the Pacific. In other words, Russia and Alaska are moving closer together, not farther apart, as the ancient "land bridge" theory would suggest.
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