Search For Lost Colony Goes High-Tech

News Observer ^ | 2-4-2008 | Catherine Kozak

[SpringheelJack]

For those familiar with the solutrian migration theory the Lumbee population might represent a population of people descended from original ice-age migrants who made it here from Europe around 50,000 years ago.

Sounds like a lot of hooey. Even if some visitors did report Indians with white ancestry (a lot of which are hoaxes, like the fairy-tale of the Welsh-speaking Indian tribe propagated by Morgan Jones) these all came well after European explorers had reached North American shores, and hence require no explanation other than a sailor's layover.

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Signs Of An Earlier America

The Topper Site - A Pre-Clovis Suprise

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(Prince) Madoc In America

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Iberia, Not Siberia

[SpringheelJack]

Madoc’s a hoax. Its first appearance in history is in a 1580s pamphlet by a friend of Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s colonizing enterprise, seeking to establish a British claim to the New World. This, 400 years after it supposedly happened. There are no genuine historical records attesting to its existence.

[Howdy there]

What is the Founder’s effect?

[RJS1950]

They have pretty solid genetic evidence that ancient man made his way to the east coast many years before the Alaskan migration route. There is also some evidence in the form of ancient campsites that predate the 13,000 year ago migration.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Poor little Virginia Dare, we barely knew ye.

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Founder Effect

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Howdy there]

Thanks, I can see I will have to read that about six times to understand it. :-)

[attiladhun2]

It is the tendency of a small-inbreeding population to take on genetic characteristics significantly different than its wider parent population.