Posted on 10/28/2005 11:53:56 AM PDT by blam
As time and research goes on, we will find that the story of how homo sapiens populated the different continents and areas is much more complicated and full of lots more different twists and turns that we now imagine.
For example, Professor Oppenheimer's DNA research noted in post #6 above, places people of European ancenstry closer in genetic lineage to American Indians than to any other group.
The reason is that most of the group that originally populated Europe moved in from the East from an area north of the Caspian Sea which is also an origination point for most of the group of people that moved into North America and became the Indians.
Of course over 1,000's of years, there is some genetic drift and lots of interbreeding with other people along the way but the DNA is still closest between these two groups.
Good points all. I was unaware of the Red Paint People hypothesis. It is important to remember that it is a hypothesis at this point. The proof of their existence and the exact extent of their contacts is pretty sketchy right now.
It is also true that North Atlantic conditions were probably a lot more hospitable during past episodes of global warming (caused, as we all know, by GW Bush).
However, I hope you will agree that North Pacific coast conditions are generally a LOT more friendly than North Atlantic ones. The Alaska Panhandle and BC areas are among the richest in food and other resources in the entire world that can be exploited by primitive peoples. Compare these conditions to those of Greenland and Labrador at similar latitudes in the Atlantic.
I know where I'd rather be shipwrecked! Which is likely how the first trips across these oceans were made.
Hmm... I remember reading somewhere that the triangle between the lakes Van-Sevan-Urmia [SW from the Caspian, not N of it] was the cradle of the Indo-European language group of people. They tried to trace cognate words and figured out that the place needed to have birches, beech, snow [occasionally], salmonids and so on. That sort of meshed with counterclockwise centrifugal dispersion from there, traceable by other means.
Some recent study placed 'it' in the Indus Valley. I would place it further north and east, probably in China.
"They tried to trace cognate words and figured out that the place needed to have birches, beech, snow [occasionally], salmonids and so on."
To add to what GS wrote, Indoeuropean languages don't exhibit common vocabulary for seas and oceans (large bodies of water), having acquired different loanwords from whomever was already there wherever they wound up. :') So, an inland origin is indicated, probably right up on top of the ice floe. ;')
The oceans were 300-500Ft lower 15k years ago. Some believe there was a brief warm period (warmer than now) during the Ice Age when the Arctic ice melted...who knows?
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