Posted on 02/14/2004 10:12:50 AM PST by blam
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
(I believe Kennewick Man is related to these folks
The most puzzling aspect of this whole episode is the behavior of the Corps of Engineers. How does obliterating the site serve anybody's interest?
Trash can tell a lot.
It doesn't but, it does cater to the Indians. This 'cover-up' was ordered by a 'high official' in the Clinton White House.
The American Indian/Native American skeletons only started showing up in the skeletal record about 6,000 years ago. Prior to about 6,000 years ago, the skeletons appear to be more closely related to the Kennewick Man type.
That's the real political aspect of this, in spite of the article's inference of the opposite. It would be un-PC if non-"Indian" people predated the "Indians", therefore the Corp of Engineers under the Clintons had to destroy the evidence.
If the evidence had pointed to the PC view, the site would have been protected.
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More recently the Zuni have been found to probably be descendants of Zen priests who fled to America in the 1300s.
It's this "family" and "tribal" resemblance that clearly demonstrates that the Jomon really haven't disappeard and continue to live in both of their most ancient homes, one in America and the other in Japan.
Well, if you are Clinton, you must do these things to show support for you special interest groups.
Dr Nancy Yaw Davis makes a compelling argument that the Zuni's are Japanese. Her book is worth Reading
THE ZUNI ENIGMA
The Zuni sacred rosette (top) closely resembles Japan's national symbol, a stylized chrysanthemum (bottom) The Zunis of New Mexico are different from other Native Americans in many ways. In an impressive, very detailed paper in the NEARA Journal, N.Y. Davis summarizes her investigation of these anomalies as follows:
"...evidence suggesting Asian admixture is found in Zuni biology, lexicon, religion, social organization, and oral traditions of migration. Possible cultural and language links of Zuni to California, the social disruption at the end of the Heian period of the 12th century in Japan, the size of Japanese ships at the time of proposed migration, the cluster of significant changes in the late 13th century in Zuni, all lend further credibility to a relatively late prehistoric contact."
We cannot delve into all classes of evidence adduced by Davis. Let us focus on the Zuni biological anomalies:
Skeletal remains. These show a significant change in Zuni physical characteristics from 1250-1400 AD, suggesting the arrival of a new element in the Zuni population.
Dentition. Three tooth features of the Zunis lie midway between those of Asians and other Native Americans; namely, shoveling, Carabelli's cusp, and 5-cusp pattern on the lower second molar.
Blood-group characteristics. Blood Type B is frequent in East Asian populations but nearly absent in most Native Americans. Zuni, on the other hand, have a high incidence of Type-B blood.
The "Zuni disease". The kidney disease mesangiopathic glomerulonephritis is much more common among the Zuni than other Americans, and it is also very common in the Orient.
The "butterfly" has to do with the silk worm business. The old nobles among the Yayoi and the pre-Samurai Ainu used this symbol. More recently several branches of the Royal Family have used one butterfly, or two butterflies (head to head). I have seen three butterflies, which are similar to the Mon that would use three balls of silk thread.
The silk worm business, interestingly enough, was once tied in directly with traders who worked a route that ended in Japan and stretched all the way to Rome (which is why it was called the "Silk Road").
There is some evidence that European-like people actually operated silk thread collection posts in Japan itself. This is inconclusive because I don't think they've found any Caucasion skeletons in Japan from that period.
Yup. There even was a pre-'Silk Road' road through the whole region. Just this morning, Western Han graves have been discovered near the Three-Gorges-Dam area. It wouldn't suprise me if some Caucasian skeletons were found in this grave yard.
"I don't think they've found any Caucasion skeletons in Japan from that period."
The oldest Jomon skeleton ever found in Japan is 13k years old. Then there are the Hakka...
Yup, I've read one anthropologist speculate that the Geshui(sp) Girl tradition of 'white-face' was and imitation of the 'royals'.
Nor so fast.....
Skulls Found In Mexico Suggest Early Americans Would Have Said 'G'Day Mate'
Nice try, but the opposite is true in my view.
It was ignoramuses who had the site destroyed precisely to use this identical argument eventually.
It is intellectually hilarious to use the "I am an orphan argument after I killed my parents". But that won't prevent the PC crowd and the controlling indian twits from attempting to use it.
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