Posted on 03/06/2017 1:25:33 PM PST by blam
(Phys.org)A trio of researchers affiliated with institutions in the U.S., Europe and South America has found evidence that suggests the native people of South America likely arrived from more than one place. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, André Strauss and Mark Hubbe describe how they applied imaging technology to skulls that have been unearthed in Brazil and what was revealed.
For many years, it was believed that a single wave of ancient immigrants made their way from Asia to North America and eventually to South Americathe first people to exist in the New World. But that view has been challenged in more recent years. In this new effort, the researchers describe evidence they have found that suggests the first settlers of the New World may have come from more than one place.
To learn more about the ancestry of some of the earliest settlers to South America, the researchers used geometric morphometrics, a type of imaging technology that allows for creating 3-D images of an object, to examine skulls found in Lagoa Santa, Brazil. Prior research had dated the skulls back 7,000 to 10,000 years, which places them near the time when scientists believe South America was first populated by humans. The researchers report that the skull shapes of the ancient people differed markedly from those of modern indigenous South Americans, suggesting they came from somewhere else.
Interestingly, Hubbe was part of another team that recently imaged skulls dug up in Mexico. That team found that 500 to 800-year-old skulls (which places them before the arrival of Europeans) from two of three distinct regions matched one another but not with the thirdsuggesting that the third came from elsewhere. They have published their findings in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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The Solutrean Migration, 30-40K years ago at the end of the last ice age. Predates the western land bridge migration.
Many of the islands were first settled in comparatively recent times.
Think about it: early island hopping was like trying to find a needle in a very large haystack.
Thor Heyerdahl thought settlement went the other way -- from Peru to Easter Island.
There has been evidence of humans in South America very early, when scientists might have expected that they'd still be making their way down from Alaska, but just how they got there is still a mystery.
Kennewick Man shows HONKIES were the first real native Americans:
Tonto was an arriviste Carpet-Bagger.
Actually not.
Waves, currents carry you along and both birds and fish will show you where land is.
Sea going cultures such as the ones in the South Pacific learn very early how to tell their way around on the water.
New Zealand wasn’t settled until about 1200 AD. That is long after the Americas were settled. Even Fiji (700s AD) and Hawaii (900 AD) were peopled after the Americas were. So I wouldn’t count on them as sources of population for the Americas.
I have to ask but can you really get that much information from skull measurements. I know you can get a number but is it a number that really means anything?
There are other factors such as nutrition that would affect things.
On the other hand there is some very strong genetic and physical evidence that the Moche of Peru were of Ainu Japanese extraction.
Lots of argument over who and when but it would have had to have been a while ago as the Moche civilization has been gone for over a 1000 years.
Not paradise, not everywhere.
One reason the Pacific Islanders sailed everywhere was that these places very quickly reached carrying capacity.
There are a lot of islands that have once had settlements that are no longer inhabited.
Northern Asians have been implicated in genocide of possibly Australian aboriginals within regions of the South American continent, based on artwork which depicts two distinct groups of people in battle.
bm
Is that the one Bill Clinton got the hots over?
Oh my.
The Indians murdered the Australians?
I have to sit down for a minute.
The poor Australians are down in South America drinking Fosters and singing “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Mate!”, and the Indians come and wipe them out?
I want those murdering Indians out of their “Sovereign Nations” in my country and back to China with the lot of them and they can all eat General Tso’s Chicken!
It’s a good thing we have it all recorded in the Big Book of British Smiles.
Something to ponder: 1999 BBC video—’The Hunt for the First Americans’.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3fxpha
http://forgottenorigin.com/2809-2
Who was mining copper in Michigan? It wasn’t any our Indians.
Solutrean migration from the Iberian peninsula (Spain) 30-40K years ago at the end of the last ice age following the seals and fish. Ancient Europeans followed the ice shelf around to land on the Grand Banks off the East coast. After the ice melt, the oceans rose and the Grand Banks are now under water. Those who here would have moved inland.
Oh good gosh.....of course there were multiple migrations. There have been restless people that like to keep moving and people fleeing various disasters throughout history.
You just reminded me:
In WW2 the Japanese planned to starve the entire Australian continent to death by feeding them rice that had all of its nutritive and caloric content removed.
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