Americas Settled by Two Groups of Early Humans, Study Says (Ward Churchill Deeply Saddened)

National Geographic ^ | 12/12/05 | Brian Handwerk

[add925]

At least two distinct groups of early humans colonized the Americas, a new study says, reviving the debate about who the first Americans were and when they arrived.

Anthropologists Walter Neves and Mark Hubbe studied 81 skulls of early humans from South America and found them to be different from both modern and ancient Native Americans.

The 7,500- to 11,000-year-old remains suggest that the oldest settlers of the Americas came from different genetic stock than more recent Native Americans.

Modern Native Americans share traits with Mongoloid peoples of Mongolia, China, and Siberia, the researchers say.

But Neves and Hubbe found that dozens of skulls from Brazil appear much more similar to modern Australians, Melanesians, and Sub-Saharan Africans.

Neves and Hubbe describe their findings in this week's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[add925]

the oldest settlers of the Americas came from different genetic stock than more recent Native Americans.

Maybe this is why Ward is switching from Native American to African roots.

[Brilliant]

I'm sure that Ward Churchill has his opinion on this, and if you don't agree, then you're wrong.

[MineralMan]

Better check with the LDS folks. They have a perspective on all this.

[add925]

Why would the thoughts of people taking LSD be of interest to me?

Wait...never mind $^)

[Sacajaweau]

Most Native Americans I know resemble Eskimos in NY resemble Eskimos.

[add925]

For that "special" liberal on your Christmas list:

[add925]

Most Native Americans I know resemble Eskimos

Eskimos resemble Mongolian nomads/fisherman and are linked genetically. Its a Bering Strait thing.

[add925]

GGG Ping (?)

[msnimje]

Yeah, Churchill doesn't like humans.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

This has been posted 3-4 times but, the more the merrier.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Add925 and Blam. Adding to the catalog.

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