Posted on 06/24/2013 1:39:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
China's Global Times - that reliable purveyor of the sublimely ridiculous, the terrifyingly nationalistic, and the just generally offensive -- struck again on Wednesday, with a quick nine-paragrapher that may just manage to combine all three offerings in one: "American Indians descend from Hunan, says expert."
The tabloid reports on the findings of Du Gangjian, dean of Hunan University Law School, who, on a recent trip to study Native American tribes in the United States (the article doesn't specify which ones), made the discovery that "American Indians have many rituals, habits and working tools that are very similar to the ones that exist among Hunan people."
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I guess it’s time for a new movement...return America to the Chinese!
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If true, he asked, why wouldn't archeologists find evidence of older and more developed civilizations in Alaska, British Columbia and the Northwest and newer, more rudimentary civilizations as the migration route turned south? Instead, we find exactly the opposite.
I could never answer his question though I tend to think the Bering Straight might account for some of the migration, just not all of it.
What a crock! Everybody knows American Indians are Russian in origin, and the Russians discovered America, and Russians invented the boat and the automobile and indoor plumbing and anti-biotics, and Russians invented...
One explanation that occurs to me is that the crossers did not stop in Alaska, because of the inhospitable climate. People who lived there were naturally living at a subsistence level.
The South Pacific islander route and theory is well known as a colonization theory for South and Central America.
As for North American aboriginals, it's not a stretch to say they were probably descended from Bering Strait crossers.
All will come out in the wash with deeper understanding of both Y and mT DNA haplotypes.
Where did he think his people came from?
Alaska, yes. But you have some pretty mild climates in the Pacific Northwest and all the way down the California coast. The Chumash tribe, centered around present day Santa Barbara, never put up anything even close to the Inca, Maya, Aztec, Toltec and a score of others further south.
A friend who is Hopi/Paiute and a tribal elder says they came west from Florida not south from the Bering Strait.
Before that, they were probably in the James River area of Virginia and driven north and west by more aggressive tribes. Remarkably similar to early European settler migration patterns.
But that would imply that people built the most elaborate culture at the first place they stopped. I am saying it is more geopolitical. That region of Central America seemed optimal to them and allowed them to build a more elaborate civilization. Why was their no Greece or Rome in Scandinavia?
This is all malarkey. American Indians are known to actually be the descendants of the original refugees from Mars shortly before that planet became uninhabitable!
The Atlantic Ocean via Continental Ice, pre clovis[Think Picard].
S. America has findings going back 30K bce, S. Carolina at the Topper site some 50k, bce.
As of now, then only 'things' from China[India, Nepal as well]that I know are the Red Panda, only occurring[found remains] in Washington and Tennessee.
“...that reliable purveyor of the sublimely ridiculous, the terrifyingly nationalistic, and the just generally offensive — struck again on Wednesday, with a quick nine-paragrapher that may just manage to combine all three offerings in one:...”
Great bit of writing in that line.
Cause they wouldn’t have lasted too long had they lingered in the Alaska? Cause those who stayed became the Eskimos/Inuit/etc., who don’t have a big cultural footprint to this day?
What would the alternate theory be?
If the tools are similar, the Hunan people need to move into the 21st century...
And where did he think those Floridians came from?
“I guess it’s time for a new movement...return America to the Chinese!”
That’ll really P-O the Mexicans!
Now we do. Thirteen thousand years ago the ice sheets extended all the way down to the present location of Seattle, and there was a mighty river that flowed from the ice sheet in that location, down to present-day Aberdeen, on Grays Harbor bay.
The Pacific coastline thirteen thousand years ago extended out 26 miles from the present day coastline, and there was land between present-day Alaska and Siberia. Migrants would have followed the coastal plain down to the Columbia River which gave access to the eastern plains of present day Washington and Oregon, but that was risky as flooding occurred regularly. See; Catastrophes on The Columbia, which explains why the mammoths, woolly rhinoceros and horses disappeared from the area. Over a period of five thousand years there were periodical floods resulting from the ancient Lake Missoula emptying.
Case in point would be the Comanche, a branch of the Shoshone tribe which originated in the Wind River area of central Wyoming. Their mastery of horsemanship was a game changer which allowed them to conquer most of what is now Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. While this did not keep them from ranging outside their normal homeland including northern Mexico, eastern Texas, Arizona, Utah, the Nebraska panhandle and even their ancestral homelands in Wyoming, it did encourage them to center their civilization in that area which they felt most suitable, namely the Texas panhandle.
By any measure, there are thousands of square miles of hospitable climate from the Pacific Northwest all the way down to the northern frontiers of Aztec civilization, none of which produced the advanced levels of settlement as the tribes named in the previous post.
As to your question 'why was their no Greece or Rome in Scandinavia?', the simple answer is the ancestral Vikings never produced a level of civilization even close to comparable until they came in contact with more advanced civilizations.
It is an argument you really can't make if you subscribe to the Bering Straight migration theory (exclusively or even mainly) as everyone is following basically the same route and, thus, contact would be inevitable.
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