Posted on 09/21/2008 8:18:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
We recently published a three stage model for the peopling of the Americas [1]. Specifically, we proposed that a recent, rapid expansion into the Americas was preceded by a long period of population stability in greater Beringia by the proto-Amerind population after divergence from their ancestral Asian population...
Fagundes et al. have published a re-analysis of the data we used in developing our three stage model for the peopling of the Americas [1]. Specifically, they identified nine mitochondrial coding region sequences that we assumed were Native American sequences, but instead are likely to derive from Asian or European individuals. Fagundes et al. are correct in this assessment, i.e. five sequences were reclassified as Asian after their publication as Native American sequences and four sequences were mistakenly included in our original study...
Our proposal for a three stage model for the peopling of the Americas remains essentially unchanged despite the modifications to the skyline plot described above. The three stages remain; 1) divergence of Amerind ancestors from the Asian gene pool, 2) prolonged period of isolation, lasting at least 7-15 thousand years, during which time genetic variants specific to and present throughout the New World were generated, and 3) rapid expansion into the Americas ~16 kya concomitant with a large population increase.
(Excerpt) Read more at plosone.org ...
A Three-Stage Colonization Model for the Peopling of the Americas
Plosone.org | 2-13-2008 | Andrew Kitchen, Michael M. Miyamoto, Connie J. Mulligan
Posted on 02/13/2008 10:45:46 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969791/posts
Humans Inhabited New World’s Doorstep For 20,000 Years
www.terradaily.com, Gainesville FL (SPX) | Feb 14, 2008 | Staff Writers
Posted on 02/14/2008 2:40:28 PM PST by tricky_k_1972
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970512/posts
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Sure, but Columbus “discovered” America, right?
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It wusnt Ingins that discovered Europia.
Colombo discovered America for the Europeans (after drunk Vikings forgot to tell about it).
Leif Erickson was here before Columbus.
Tribalism is fascinating.
doesn’t matter who dicovered it - what matters ids who’s got the brass to keep it.
looks to me like we want to give it away.
Lacking the skills to completely understand WTF these scientists are saying, are they suggesting there were New Worlders here before the Asians and Europeans?
"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."
"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."
Nope, that is what they’d formerly said; now that the truth squad got to them, they’re saying that any apparent traces of non-Asian or radically pre-clovis DNA is due to post-columbian contamination of the ethnic purity.
Sure did. Just like a lot of others did. :’) I discovered it the day I was born here. Obama discovered it, well, we’re not sure when...
Still resisting the ever growing evidence of first population from Europe, I see. Anthropologists have, since the 1970s, drunk deep from the beaker of politically correct poison.
The Neandertal Enigma"Allan Wilson had always been described to me in superlatives, such as 'one of the real geniuses in science,' or 'the most arrogant guy I know...' [H]e apologized for putting me off so long and bluntly explained that the reason he had done so was that he did not trust me... 'The anthropological perspective on evolution is no longer valid; it has been overthrown. And yet the science writers who insist on talking to me come drenched in an anthropological perspective, and there is really no point in talking to them... It is paralytic. It prevents you from asking certain questions, and it forces you to ask others. The whole discipline invites you not to investigate.'
by James Shreeve
...A few months before my visit, Wilson had announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science... that the Neandertals were replaced because they could not speak... suggesting that a particular gene for language might have been carried in the mitochondria themselves. Since invading males would have been more likely to mate with resident females than the other way around, the offspring of sexual contact between the two groups would be 'linguistically deaf-mute,' like their Neandertal mothers. Thus disadvantaged, these 'village idiots' would face the same fate as the mothers: extinction. Only the language-endowed African lineage would continue. The language gene idea, and especially the unfortunate term 'village idiots,' elicited hoots of derision from the anti-Eve camp, and gave no joy to Wilson's colleagues." [pp 119-121]
Much of what is coming out now is rethinking of old evidence in light of different theories along with newer evidence. The probability of sea borne migrations has traditionally been ignored, because almost all Archeology sites are on dry land, and boats would not leave tell tale traces in many sites. However, most boats until well into the Iron age were not suited to long voyages (greater than 1 week) of the type required to reach the Americas reliably. The Polynesians did do long voyages, but many islands were only visited by one or two boats before European contact.
The resemblance between Clovis and Solutarian stone work may not be an accident, but it does not require a large number of Europeans, there need only be one lost stone master and willing students. Eastern North America was populated before the Clovis culture and some evidence exists for that culture having spread from the US South East.
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