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To: blam
Re: Kennewick Man DNA Tests link:

Sounds like they have prejudged the results before performing the test. If the DNA fits the A, B, C, or D category, case closed. If it doesn't, then the results are either inconclusive or just plain wrong.

In other words, heads the Indians win, tails European ancestors lose.

14 posted on 08/25/2002 6:53:02 PM PDT by StopGlobalWhining
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To: StopGlobalWhining
(There are no skeletons ever found in North America of Native Americans/American Indians that are older than 6,000 years old)

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Others like Kennewick Man

About seven skeletons the age of Kennewick man have been found in North America. All have proto-Caucasoid features (Caucasoid features so generic that they can not be traced to any definite Caucasian ethhnic group) , in varying degrees. None closely resembles modern Native Americans.

Several possible explanations for these finds have been put forward.

One is that the earliest immigrants to the Americas came from Europe, perhaps by walking from Norway to Newfoundland on the North Atlantic, which was frozen solid 16,000 years ago. Evidence for this theory comes from the Clovis spearpoints made in North America 11,000 years ago, which more closely resemble the stone tools of Europe than Asia.

Another possible explanation, supported by more recent studies, is that 9000 years ago, all Eurasians had some Caucasoid features. Recent examinations of a cast of Kennewick Man's skull point toward Ainu or Polynesian, rather than European, features.

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17 posted on 08/25/2002 7:17:41 PM PDT by blam
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