[ApplegateRanch]

Begging the question, but 8,000-25,000 years ago, where were the ‘Mongolians’ living, while the then-inhabitants of now-Mongolia were busy leaving for freer shores?

[Daffynition]

Buckminster Fuller may have been on to something when he created his Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map ... The Fuller Projection. 'He wrote about about the possibilities of global exploration primarily by following the coast lines. He thought the Phoenicians may have circumnavigated the world before the Greek's golden age. The largest jump is from the Faroe islands to Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, the route across the North Atlantic that St Brendan traveled before a thousand a.d. in a corracle (skin covered wood frame boat) not six feet in diameter. The point is that people moved around a lot more in pre-historic times than historians allow. And after too, maybe. So the origin of the Amerinds is still an open question. So is the fact that archaeologists have found remains in North America that appear to not be Amerinds yet predate known Amerind sites in the same area.'

Perhaps DNA testing will bring us closer to what we don't know. Which is a lot. ;-D