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Montana Boy: Bones Show Ancestral Links to Europe
DER SPIEGEL ^ | February 20, 2014 | Rex Dalton

Posted on 02/24/2014 1:46:52 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Despite general resistence, representatives of tribes in the US recently gave their blessing for DNA analysis of the remains of a Stone Age child. Research conducted on the boy's genes indicate that Native Americans have European roots.

It must have been a pretty special child, otherwise the two-year old wouldn't have been buried in such a ceremonious manner. The boy was sprinkled with celebratory red dust and given distinctive stone artifacts for his last journey.

The characteristic fluting of the stone weapons serve as archeological evidence that the boy, who died some 12,600 years ago, came from the Clovis culture. It was one of the earliest New World groups, disappearing mysteriously a few centuries after the child's burial in present day Montana. From the summit of a hill towering over the burial site near the Yellowstone River, the boy's Ice Age contemporaries could monitor their hunting grounds for mammoth and bison.

Now a team of scientists led by the Danish geneticist Eske Willerslev has analyzed the boy's origins and discovered that he descends from a Siberian tribe with roots tracing back to Europe. Some of the boy's ancestors are likely even to have lived in present-day Germany.

Their findings go even further: More than 80 percent of all native peoples in the Americas -- from the Alaska's Aleuts to the Maya of Yucatan to the Aymaras along the Andes -- are descended from Montana boy's lineage.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: clovis; europeanamericans; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; immigrants; montana; montanaboy; nationofimmigrants; nativeamericans; siberia; solutrean; solutreans
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To: Berlin_Freeper

HAs anyone ever come up with a theory as to why human beings appeared on continents like Asia and Africa way back—but nowhere in either S. America or N. America is there evidence of humans until migrations occurred in relatively recent times ,viz 10-12,000 years ago?

Much of N. America is ecologically and climatologically friendly to human species for example, but no human evolution from the primordial slime?

Nor, for the religiously inclined, was God involved in seeding humans into the Americas, presumably for lack of interest.


42 posted on 02/26/2014 9:40:25 AM PST by wildbill
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To: oblomov
"Leftist: We stole the land from the Native Americans!
Me: Who did they steal it from?

Maybe these folks:

Vintage Skulls

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.(snip)

Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans.(snip)

... but they imply that the first wave of people arrived in the Americas more than 30,000 years ago. This suggests archaeologists should be looking in older geological strata."

43 posted on 02/26/2014 2:41:32 PM PST by blam
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To: wildbill
"HAs anyone ever come up with a theory as to why human beings appeared on continents like Asia and Africa way back—but nowhere in either S. America or N. America is there evidence of humans until migrations occurred in relatively recent times ,viz 10-12,000 years ago?"

Many reputations have been destroyed challenging the 'Clovis Theory'.

Calico: A 200,000-year Old Site In The Americas?

Alleged 40,000-Year-Old Human Footprints In Mexico Much, Much Older Than Thought

44 posted on 02/26/2014 2:54:09 PM PST by blam
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To: BenLurkin; Theoria
"Any Neanderthal DNA?"

At 400,000 Years, Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries

45 posted on 02/26/2014 2:59:01 PM PST by blam
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