First Americans May Have Been European

LiveScience.com ^ | 2/19/06 | Bjorn Carey

[Coyoteman]

The AINU are consider to be a subgroup of the Caucasoid group; not as Asians...unless someone has changed that, now.

When I studied races some decades ago, my textbook Human Races, by Stanley Garn; 3rd ed.) placed the Ainu as one of the "long-isolated marginal local races" with relationships to Asiatics in general. Garn described them (p. 176) as "the apparent remnant of a much larger pre-Neolithic group that inhabited areas of mainland China and Taiwan as well."

Does anyone have anything newer?

I still think the Ainu are related to the folks who made the Early Coastal Migration, reaching California and points south about 15,000 or more years ago.

[CobaltBlue]

The people who were successful in establishing a culture in North America, who did not die out, who went on to establish cultures in Central America and South America, did not come from Europe.

[nopardons]

I learned what I posted many decades ago, so, it might very well have been changed, without my knowing about it.

But, I can always count on YOU, to post the latest stuff. :-)

[nopardons]

I'm willing to bet that I learned about the AINU and racial groups, long before you. Therefore, I wont argue nor attempt to refute what you posted.

[TheForceOfOne]

Or Polynesians, who knows.

[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the ping, USF

You might both enjoy this if you haven't seen it before:

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/changing/journey/intro.html

http://newsletter.dri.edu/1997/winter97/WinterText96/Discovery.html

[Fred Nerks]

[blam]

"I'm willing to bet that I learned about the AINU and racial groups, long before you. Therefore, I wont argue nor attempt to refute what you posted."

FReeper 'Coyoteman' is a practicing, professional archaeologist. We have to cut him a little 'slack' every now and again because of that handicap. LOL

[Coyoteman]

FReeper 'Coyoteman' is a practicing, professional archaeologist. We have to cut him a little 'slack' every now and again because of that handicap. LOL

My coffee mug says, "My Life is in Ruins."

[blam]

"My coffee mug says, "My Life is in Ruins."

That's cute.

I had/have one with the 'super-continent' on it and when hot coffee was poured into it, it would break apart and the continents would drift to their present location. I haven't seen it in a while though.

[nopardons]

LOL...what I meant ( which seems to have been unclear, because of how I wrote it ), is that my knowledge is very old and perhaps out of date. :-)

[nopardons]

That's why studying the remains of Kennewick Man and the others like him, is so important!

[nopardons]

That's hysterical! :-)

[Ciexyz]

Sheesh, one of the few facts that I remember from grade school geography is that the first Americans came over the Bering Strait. And now some scientist is saying my social studies teachers wuz wrong!

[blam]

"...is that my knowledge is very old and perhaps out of date. :-)"

Nah. You get updated here daily...the same as me. I have five year old books on this subject that are 'out-of-date.'

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" If European settlers had just delayed few hundred years, the savages would have killed each other off and there wouldn't be any Indian casinos. "

It was a conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

You got that right.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.hollowearththeory.com/articles/expandingEarthAnimation.asp

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Facts and truth never mattered to the PC crowd, Liberals, MSM.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.hollowearththeory.com/articles/expandingEarthAnimation.asp

I love this one...the world is a balloon...