Posted on 02/25/2005 6:08:54 PM PST by blam
Funny..I thought the same thing. ;)
So...were there people in Melanesia 12KYA? What do we have to compare this to? Any 12KYA Melanesian bones in the lab?
Well yes, most Americans are in fact native-born Americans, and I prefer 'American Indian' to 'Native American' to describe that ethnic group(s).
I was just trying to be sarcastic about one of the more irrelevant and meaningless points I often hear when immigration is discussed.
Of course. Heck, there were people in Australia 50,000 years ago.
Sundaland. I'm beginning to think that the ancestors of most humans alive today, minus the stay-at-home Africans, spent the Ice Age in sunny SE Asia (Sundaland) and when Sundaland went under water at the end of the Ice Age...They migrated to points all over the globe.
A theory that I've 'picked-up' from Professor Stephen Oppenheimer.
I'm also beginning to believe that the Caucasians and Mongoloids parted ways around 18,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.
Somebody round them up so we can pay them something... for something.
I guess.
Do we owe them something?
I'm somewhat curious if there are any similarities between the Fuegans and the Pericues.
Kennewick man was the first to open this theory. There have been many, many finds similar to his, but "Indian only" policy liberals shuffled the evidence into dusty lockers. Congress needs to act on abolishing the Native American graves Repatriation Act, which automatically turns over any old bones to Indian tribes for reburial without study.
I remember reading something Humboldt wrote in his travels around the tip of South America. He describe two types of people, one was tall and slim and wore furs and made their living off the land, the other was short and stocky, wore few clothes and made their living from the sea.
Luzia the 2nd oldest skeleton ever found in the Americas
A probable answer for you here
LOL I was thinking the EXACT same thing!
"I thought the Ainu were a Caucasoid race that lived in the mountains of Japan until they were exterminated..."
You are correct, but they aren't allowed to say "caucasian" and suggest whites were here before yellows or browns. The Ainu are not extinct, they've been "assimilated." Pics of old Ainu men reveal red beards, some had blue eyes. The Japanese don't like red beards. The Chinese were predated by whites in their own country (the ancestors of ancient Tocharians). They too were "assimilated."
I agree. It should be limited to (maybe) 6,000 years ago. They're making a court run for the remains of Spirit Cave Man as we talk.
My name is Ward Churchill...and I am Pericuan.
See me roar.
Regarding the photos of Spirit Cave Man and Kennewick Man. We don't know what their skin color was, only that their features were decidedly caucasian. The photos make them look white skinned, but the color is actually grey, the color of the clay used.
No we don't owe them, but it may be time for the American Indians to turn over the keys to the casinos to the newly found original owners of the USA....
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