Cool dude, ainu, kennewick, good stuff.
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Awesome, I have a view of the McNary dam on the Columbia from my window. Keep up the research! Let us us know what you find.
He may not have traveled by canoe, at least that far.
Back then the sea levels were a lot lower, leaving more land. It’s not inconceivable that his trip was no more than a couple hundred kilometres. It’s possible that the more eastern point of Asia was within sight of the most western point of Alaska.
If Sarah Palin lived back then, she really would have seen Russia from her back door. :)
I don’t understand why he isn’t going from west to east with the Japan/Humboldt current. And why isn’t he making a right at the Kamchatka Peninsula and just following the Aleutian archipelago?
All they need to due is a DNA test which has been done . The Russian tribes don’t want to give up the power and perks.
The reason that there was only one Kennewick Man is that he forgot to bring Kennewick Woman with him.
Kennewick could have walked/sledded the entire trip on the sea ice.
Peter Freuchen, the Danish explorer, walked across the ice from Greenland to Canada eating seals along the way.
It was hazardous, but Stone Age people could have made the journey.
Why would they go? The Shaman got loaded on mushrooms and told them they had to.
Science Frontiers
1989
Dr C Loring Brace
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.