Book presents evidence of human connections across Bering Strait land bridge

Daily News-Miner ^ | 05 July 2010 | Mary Beth Smetzer

[SunkenCiv]

Heh heh... I may do that... I’m a little put out that Amazon keeps dinking with the graphic URL though.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2547380/posts?page=13#13

Click on the “Nadene” link.

[greyfoxx39]

Does that have anything to do with the Curelom that was just found in Alabama?

Fossils of mastodons -- forebears of the elephant -- previously have been found in the Mid-South, but Wednesday's discovery is a significant one, Young said. He believes the jawbone may have belonged to a close relative of the mastodon called a trilophodon, an animal which has never before been found in the Mid-South, he said.

The trilophodon had a long, pointed chin tipped with two short tusks, a short trunk and two larger tusks on the skull that curved down. The fossil found Wednesday belonged to an adult that Young estimates was 7 to 8 feet tall and 12 to 15 feet long and weighed between one and two tons.

Oh..I guess not.

[Utah Binger]

The history of the southwest from the Anasazi to the Navajo to the Hopi to the Apache is intriguing in the sense that the waves of the populace had interesting changes as certain migrations occurred. And when the Hopi nations appeared, the Anasazi disappeared.

Also the Alaskan languages are so much like languages here.
Some day maybe reaganaut will do a new study in this region debunking all the Mormon rhetoric.

[muawiyah]

There are several widely spoken languages in Mexico ~ Spanish is one, English is another (probably #2). Mexico supposedly recognizes 60 native languages, but only Nuatl has more than 1,000,000 native speakers.

Wiki has a piece that says: "Some of the native languages of North and South America are tonal, notably many of the Athabaskan languages of Alaska and the American Southwest (including Navajo), and especially the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico. Among the Mayan languages, which are mostly non-tonal, Yucatec (with the largest number of speakers), Uspantek, and one dialect of Tzotzil have developed simple tone systems."

So what we are talking about in terms of tonal languages in Mexico is a group.

Given the discovery that the Chinese have a gene to produce a protein that helps the brain process tonal languages it's time for some DNA tests in Mexico!

[gleeaikin]

OK, I Googled Oto-Manguean languages. These have nothing to do with Aztec, which only showed up in Central Mexico 200 to 300 years before the Spaniards after traveling there from the north. Key civilizations of the O-M were the Zapotec and Mixtec whose ruins (which I have visited and photographed) are outside Oaxaca, which I would not consider Central Mexico, more like southern Mexico. These two cultures were far older than the Aztecs and from a different cultural antecedent. Another culture that I recognize in the O-M group is the Otomi, also southern, I think.

[muawiyah]

I believe anthropologists consider “Central Mexico” to be a bit south of the geographical central portion ~ a number of civilizations grew up there over several thousand years. No doubt the ancient Aztecs had a term for “El Norte” and meant what we would today call Northern Mexico and maybe San Diego county

[ThanhPhero]

How does all this preclude colonization of at least NE Asia from America?

[SunkenCiv]

Doesn’t, and thanks! It’s always amused and bemused me that the alleged land bridge must have been lousy with one-way signs.