Ping!
Is this about Berkeley, California?
So archeo-lingusitics and genetic studies *CAN* be used to establish elements of a people’s history. I’m amazed!!
Did you read the article? Sounds like reverse evolution to me.
Ooooooo.....so they found a small society derived from a few cast-offs of another society....and these cast-offs have a different type of society.....and that means something to someone?
What it means to me is that you have a bunch of farmers.....who cast off a couple onto a raft down a river.....and these 2 people couldn’t farm for themselves because as any farm family knows.....you need more than 2 kids with no equipment to do the farming.
......so these couple of kids got food the way they could and eventually founded a small clan of 300 that practice the same behaviors as their 500-800 years ago ancestors did.
That sure means something.
Interesting article.
I suppose the descendents of the original two also married outside of the tribe. Otherwise, their descendents (now 300) would be highly inbred.