Posted on 07/08/2020 9:31:46 AM PDT by rdl6989
Through deep genetic analyses, Stanford Medicine scientists and their collaborators have found conclusive scientific evidence of contact between ancient Polynesians and Native Americans from the region that is now Colombia—something that's been hotly contested in the historic and archaeological world for decades.
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Before the study brought scientific evidence to the debate, the idea that Native Americans and Polynesians had crossed paths originated from a complex—both in its structure and origins—carbohydrate: the sweet potato. It turns out the sweet potato, which was originally domesticated in South and Central America, has also been known to grow in one other place prior to European contact. That place is known as Oceania, which consists of many islands, including Polynesia.
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Makes a big deal about genetics but only in the most general sense - no specific sets of genes are mentioned.
Title leads one to believe they ae talking about North Americans tribes, but is only relevant to peoples from Mexico south.
BS study. Send more sweet potatoes
Thanks For your posts. Interesting.
Watson and Crick, what have you done?! All those nice assumptions by tenured academics, overturned by DNA!
(Yes, I know that there are many others who participated in the DNA discoveries, but their’s are the names on the prize!)
One article I read a few years ago suggested sweet potatoes washed into the Pacific during storms and drifted to the islands. I supposed it is possible.
Maybe it was carried there by sparrows ...
Indigenous North Americans came from the north... Indigenous South Americans came from the south... Kind of makes sense... Somewhere in the middle, likely southern Mexico they met up.
What kind of sparrow?
It isn’t true that polynesia was first settled in 1200 AD, it was much, much earlier.
1200 isn’t a bad guess for when the 2nd wave of conquests came from raiatea, bora bora, tahiti. Wouldn’t surprise me if they also managed to send a war canoe to south america, they reached new zealand and hawaii
‘”We found identical-by-descent segments of Native American ancestry across several Polynesian islands,” Ioannidis said. “It was conclusive evidence that there was a single shared contact event.” In other words, Polynesians and Native Americans met at one point in history, and during that time people from the two cultures produced children with both Native American and Polynesian DNA. ‘
This means that if the Polynesians visited Columbia, then they took women back with them or stayed long enough to have children by Columbians and then took the children back to Polynesia.
OTOH, if the Columbians visited Polynesia, no round trip is required to explain these data.
Since then they’ve found a system of moving the things more easily...by rocking them. It explains the peculiar shape of the base as well.
they bumped into each other.
But, the key question.....who had the land first?
Over and over and over.............
Uh, oh - Hagoth’s descendants.
No, It isn’t possib!e. Anyone that has raised sweet potatoes knows that they are propagated by slips and that salt water would kill the slips. The only way possib!e is humans carrying the tuber to the islands.
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