Posted on 03/21/2008 5:08:17 AM PDT by decimon
“More of this, please. It should take the wind out of some moral-superiority sails.”
Interesting article, strange response. Who are you trying to agitate?
So, by studying genetics they can determine that European settlers "slaughtered" men of African origin?
I doubt that seriously!
Whoever would be agitated.
The common current impression is that something unique occurred in the U.S. in terms of Europeans mistreating aboriginals. Peoples south of the U.S. are allowed the pretense of some morally superior history. That is bunkum and, regardless of intent, articles like this act against that pretense.
European colonisation of South America resulted in a dramatic shift from a native American population to a largely mixed one, a genetic study has shown.
The mixed heritage wouldn’t be so obvious among the people appearing to be purely native.
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population.
The people with mixed DNA would have a better chance of surviving European diseases than the non-mixed population. This could ‘skew’ the data.
I’m not affirming or denying the contentions of the article. I welcome what debate it might spur.
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the context is the male indians were slaughtered.
if true, it’s a holocaust of mega proportions.
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