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To: Varda
"Now that X has been found in the Altai the case for Europe is pretty weak."

How does that relate to the possibility that all of todays Indo-Europeans originated in/around the Gansu Province region in China?

On another point. James Chatters (of Kennewick Man fame), thinks that Kennewick Man came from a line of people that spawned both todays Asians and Europeans.

32 posted on 11/19/2004 5:07:36 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

I don't know about Indo-europeans being from Gansu Province. (Do you have a link for that?) Indo-european is a language family that many people seem to think originated from anywhere from central Asia to the Black Sea area. All of the sources I've read are talking about a much older population ancestral to several language famlies. Wells "The Journey of Man" dates them to 35,000BP; Cavalli-Sforza "History and Geography of Human Genes" dates them to 50,000BP+
Both place the population somewhere in central or western Asia. Sounds like Chatters is following that line of thinking.


33 posted on 11/19/2004 5:41:32 PM PST by Varda
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