Posted on 08/27/2014 4:29:21 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Instapundit: "The Army Corps of Engineers sure didn’t want this researched, and continues to interfere today. Why? "
Why? It blows the native "indians" narrative of 'we were here first' out of the water. Land claims and free money is g-o-n-e gone:
As work progressed, a portrait of Kennewick Man emerged. He does not belong to any living human population. Who, then, are his closest living relatives? Judging from the shape of his skull and bones, his closest living relatives appear to be the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands, a remote archipelago 420 miles southeast of New Zealand, as well as the mysterious Ainu people of Japan. . . . Not that Kennewick Man himself was Polynesian. This is not Kon-Tiki in reverse; humans had not reached the Pacific Islands in his time period. Rather, he was descended from the same group of people who would later spread out over the Pacific and give rise to modern-day Polynesians. These people were maritime hunter-gatherers of the north Pacific coast; among them were the ancient Jōmon, the original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands. The present-day Ainu people of Japan are thought to be descendants of the Jōmon. Nineteenth-century photographs of the Ainu show individuals with light skin, heavy beards and sometimes light-colored eyes. . . . The discovery of Kennewick Man adds a major piece of evidence to an alternative view of the peopling of North America. It, along with other evidence, suggests that the Jōmon or related peoples were the original settlers of the New World. If correct, the conclusion upends the traditional view that the first Americans came through central Asia and walked across the Bering Land Bridge and down through an ice-free corridor into North America.
“I believe these Asian coastal migrations were the first,” said Owsley. “Then you’ve got a later wave of the people who give rise to Indians as we know them today.”
Bttt.
Dang, I bet the Indian tribes are bummed out about this, if they even heard about it. I remember all the fuss about not touching the body of their ancestor because it was sacreligious.
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Fantastic! Great news, long, long overdue and a really well-written article. Thanks for posting!
There are about to be a lot of “First American” broken hearts. And then maybe not. It was the pothead, honky college liberals who convinced the Indians that they were here first. LOL! Gotta get me some popcorn.
Indian land claims are generally not based on “being here first” this isn’t gonna change anything in that regard. The United States government didn’t take land from or sign treaties with Kennewick Man, it did take land from and break treaties with Indians.
I guess I’m naive, but I really don’t see why any of this would bother anybody. It’s a really interesting discovery. Let God’s truth shine forth. It’s bound to be much more fascinating than our petty little human narratives.
Time to close down the BIA.
land bridge? we don need no stinkin land bridge!!
"North American NW coast"
"Chatham Islands, a remote archipelago 420 miles southeast of New Zealand"
"Ainu people of Japan".
"modern-day Polynesians"
-sounds like 4 corners of the Lost Continent of Mu to me.
I’m glad they can study the bones. I don’t expect any big changes in theory though. The fact that the bones don’t look like modern natives means nothing. Nobody’s ancestors had looks like their modern decendents.
New name for the Redskins: ‘The Washington Kenniwicks’. I mean, it shouldn’t offend the Native Americans.
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I like it!
The ‘Native’ Americans simply stole it from the Kennewick people fair and square.
ERIC CLAPNER!!
Thanks Fractal Trader.
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