[blam]

"...and that Asia wasn't as genetically homogenous back then as people tend to assume."

I came to that conclusion a couple years ago. The people that are presently in China are not the same people who were there as short as 6,000 years ago.

Looks like the Canadians are getting something correct. NAGRA ought to be on it's last leg in this country, but it's not.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[bigsigh]

The people that are presently in China are not the same people who were there as short as 6,000 years ago.

If they are you've got a very very big story. : )

[First_Salute]

In Ohio, within some of the Indian mounds, are the remnants of a race of people who were giants, avg. height of 7 ft or more, and they had twin rows of teeth.

For a time, beginning two centuries ago, some "grave robbers," so to speak, would dig into the mounds, and skulls and such were collected.

These artifacts were too fragile to survive exposure and all decomposed in short order. There are none remaining, except in some of the mounds that long ago were ordered OFF LIMITS.

So the story goes.

[kingu]

I think that there would be real legs on the matter if this was about 200 years ago, not thousands of years ago.

[Mercat]

bump

[wagglebee]

Damn! This is major and it changes the "history" of mankind radically. However, I have a feeling that mainstream science will "bury" this information until it becomes impossible to ignore. I can also see how this has the potential to throw put even more doubt on the unproven theory of evolution.

[Cold Heart]

Looks like the Southern border has been porous for a long time.

[Coyoteman]

Good article, as usual. However, some of the comments which follow ("twin rows of teeth" and "it changes the history of mankind radically" and "even more doubt on the unproven theory of evolution") seem to miss the importance of this article and these finds. Following an agenda in spite of where the date lead?

But, DNA is providing major clues to population movements, and the rest of us will let the chips fall where they may! Exciting times!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. "As the Smithsonian article notes, it's also becoming more popular to look at boats as the means of humanity's spread." The problem for the Clovis First and Only school of non-thought is, if people came to the Americas by boat 10,000 years ago, what stopped them after that point? The obvious answer is nothing, and that destroys the cuckoo fantasyland of pristine isolation that grew from politics, analogous to (and similarly rooted) the current Edenic delusion that feeds the global warming bulldung.

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[SunkenCiv]

[pinging sound]

[msdrby]

ping

[johnmilken]

"I came to that conclusion a couple years ago. The people that are presently in China are not the same people who were there as short as 6,000 years ago."

Could you elaborate on that? Who were the people in 'China' 6,000 years ago and why did you come to that conclusion?

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[SunkenCiv]