Posted on 11/14/2004 2:33:59 PM PST by blam
Yes! The Solutreians and the same spear points as Clovis.
Ojibwa carry DNA that is only found in a minority population in Europe as I recall -- you no doubt have that information at your fingertips, blam.
Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked on the Texas coast (probably Galveston Island) in 1528 and survived to write an account of his experiences. The Indians of that era seem to have led a wretched existence and were often hungry. A couple of tribes had the custom of killing their newborn daughters, and acquiring wives by buying women from other tribes.
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Probably related to the Red-Paint-People who have recently been connected to the Scandanavian countries.
South Padre Island...Great camping on the beach! Did that last spring.
Whatever her age, Clinton would like to date her!
Lived in Texas for 20 years, went there once. I usually went east to Alabama or Florida for the beach scene, much better beaches.
"The people living in America prior to 6,000 years ago were different people than the people we (today) call American Indian/Native Americans."
Just curious but why wouldn't these Paleo-Americans be the Native-Americans (or Indians) grandparents ?
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During my short stay in Corpus we spent a lot of time hunting small critters and fishing - found mastodons literally dripping out of river banks.
There's a lot of old stuff out there and 35 or so years ago there was darn little being done about it.
Probably same to be said about the immediate off-coast regions but they are so sandy that only sonar would work.
They were a different race of people...there may have been some 'mixing' though.
Are there any sketches or pictures of these artifacts? Some of the best points I have ever found came from up river from this spot, on the Mexican side.
Sorry, haven't seen any. Keep your eye on the Houston Chronicle for updates on this story.
Bull-headed fellow, wasn't he?
There's a fairly new Penguin edition of Alvar Nun~ez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition.
Ilan Stavans in the introduction comments that the surname, literally meaning Cow's Head, is one of the stranger surnames in literary and cultural history. Supposedly it dates back to an ancestor's exploit in 1212 at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa...the ancestor used a cow's skull to mark a path which allowed the Christian forces to escape destruction.
Stavans calls the story "probably apocryphal" since it is not recorded until much later. So the cow's head story is probably b.s.
Cabeza de Vaca seems to have been a pretty decent guy, at least in comparison to most of the early explorers of the New World.
Some people are "Ainu" retemtive.
Perhaps even you and me, huh?
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