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Posted on 01/17/2004 2:50:55 PM PST by blam
THE SAMURAI AND THE AINU
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.
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Kingsley has a caucasian mother.
Indians don’t look “white” as we define them in the west, though your point is well taken. In other words, Kingsley’s father has darker skin than the average englishman or “caucasian”.
Merry Christmas to you as well!
They also used a written language that is very similar to Nordic runes
About 1300 years ago, during the demise of the Korean Three Kingdom period, the Baekje in the southern third of Korea may have migrated into the Kagoshima area. Today, the people of Kagoshima maintain that they came into Japan from Korea and may have conquered all the way up into the Kanto Plain or the mainland center of Japan.
I believe that the same patterns exist in India. A young man who has done construction work for us has been doing a job for an Indian doctor who has over the weeks been very rude to him and now is trying to stiff him for $3000.00. I warned Tyler to keep good records. We’ll see.
C. Loring Brace
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology; Emeritus Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
https://lsa.umich.edu/anthro/people/emeritus/clbrace.html
Loring Brace retired as Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. His research addresses issues of morphological variability between human populations. His investigations focus on circumstances and dynamics involved in the development of differences in human skeletal and dental dimensions, as well as the assessment of adaptive aspects of human variation such as nose form and skin color. He has made a point contrasting the aspects of human form that are under selective force control with those that demonstrably are not, and has shown how the latter can be used to evaluate populations relationships going back into the past where there are no direct historical data. He is currently working on two major projects: 1 - The Origins of Native Americans; 2 – The Emergence of “Modern” human morphology.
C. Loring Brace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Loring_Brace
In 1962, Brace published a paper in American Anthropologist titled “Refocusing on the Neanderthal Problem” where he argued, in opposition to French anthropologist Henri Vallois, that the archeological and fossil evidence did not necessarily support the idea that the Neanderthals were replaced by Cro-Magnon populations migrating into Europe, rather than being ancestral to early Homo sapiens.
Very interesting read. The theory is that 5700 or so years ago, groups in Southern-Germany/Austria/Chechia learned to ride horses, and were able to quickly expand their range in all directions, including the British Isles (Celts) to the west, Scandinavia to the north, and the -stans and beyond to the east. All very politically incorrect and throwing accepted Chinese history for a loop.
Blast from the past.
Same time as the Black Sea Flood which would have sent refugees everywhere too.
In fact, I believe it was these refugees who spread farming and the Indo-European language all around.
I don’t believe we can say people were the same 10-20,000 years ago as they are now. Most of the races outside of Africa were in the process of becoming what they are now.
At one time, Australiods, Caucasians and East Asians were the same, from the Capoid race of Africa. The group that became Australiods went South and West, nito Sundaland and Sahal. The other two went North, but whites went West and East Asians went East.
Amerindians went more North and East. Amerindians are less specialized than the East Asians, and the East Asians would continue to evolve, while the Amerindians had both Caucasian and East Asian features, some tribes more than others. One thing that led to further East Asian development was the vast amount of them, even in paleolithic times, that led to the homogeneousness of them.
I believe the Ainu and Kenniwick man shared those same non-evolved Northern traits that were part of the original stock of those people who would later become Caucasians and East Asians.
Negroids evolved from the Capoids, but remained in Africa.
Whenever I chat up Neanderthal chicks,
my Cro-Magnon gonads keep stalling.
It’s not a bad lick how her brow is too thick,
but that New Jersey accent’s appalling.
2020 bump.
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How would you have skeletal remains of people who practiced cremation of their dead.
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