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.”
He looks exactly my cousin, who is from the Welsh side of the family.
Obviously he is the progenitor of every biker alive.
:)
America, in the Beginning
Archaeologists continue their search for evidence of how the vast, once-uninhabited regions of the New World came to be populated
By NIKHIL SWAMINATHAN
Monday, August 11, 2014
http://archaeology.org/issues/145-1409/features/2366-peopling-the-americas-preclovis
Just finishing this one. Nothing new for us.
Jocelyn, is that you?
jes couldn’t help myself!
Good post!
Serious coolness in the article, among the evidence of a government agency running amok. (No surprise that, really.) I had about given up on learning more on this subject. Glad those folks took this so seriously.
It is about time we learned more of this. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Whatever the truth is, I want it.
What was that? Oh, yes. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Old Student
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:
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LOL. You can’t get rid of government programs that easily, especially when facts are irrelevant.
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