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Americas Settled by Two Groups of Early Humans, Study Says (Ward Churchill Deeply Saddened)
National Geographic ^ | 12/12/05 | Brian Handwerk

Posted on 12/19/2005 8:36:37 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dna; fakeindian; genetics; godsgravesglyphs
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.


1 posted on 12/19/2005 8:36:40 AM PST by add925
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To: add925

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


2 posted on 12/19/2005 8:41:11 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: add925

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


3 posted on 12/19/2005 8:43:12 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan
Why would the thoughts of people taking LSD be of interest to me?

Wait...never mind $^)

4 posted on 12/19/2005 8:47:02 AM PST by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: MineralMan

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


5 posted on 12/19/2005 8:47:57 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Brilliant
For that "special" liberal on your Christmas list:


6 posted on 12/19/2005 8:48:17 AM PST by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: Sacajaweau
Most Native Americans I know resemble Eskimos

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

7 posted on 12/19/2005 8:49:44 AM PST by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: blam

GGG Ping (?)


8 posted on 12/19/2005 8:55:14 AM PST by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: add925

Yeah, Churchill doesn't like humans.


9 posted on 12/19/2005 9:28:30 AM PST by msnimje (Political Correctness -- An OFFENSIVE attempt not to offend.)
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To: add925; SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.

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

10 posted on 12/19/2005 10:48:00 AM PST by blam
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To: add925; blam
Thanks Add925 and Blam. Adding to the catalog.

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11 posted on 12/19/2005 11:16:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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