Skull Study Suggests at Least Two Groups Colonized America

Sci-Tech Today ^ | December 15, 2005

[nickcarraway]

The 7,500- to 11,000-year-old remains suggest the oldest settlers of the Americas came from different genetic stock than more recent Native Americans. Modern Native Americans share traits with Mongoloid peoples of Mongolia, China, and Siberia, the researchers said. But they found dozens of skulls from Brazil appear much more similar to modern Australians, Melanesians, and Sub-Saharan Africans.

A Brazilian study involving a large collection of South American skulls suggests at least two distinct groups of early humans colonized the Americas. Anthropologists Walter Neves and Mark Hubbe of the University of Sao Paulo studied 81 skulls of early humans and found them to be different from both modern and ancient Native Americans, National Geographic News reported Tuesday.

The 7,500- to 11,000-year-old remains suggest the oldest settlers of the Americas came from different genetic stock than more recent Native Americans.

Modern Native Americans share traits with Mongoloid peoples of Mongolia, China, and Siberia, the researchers said. But they found dozens of skulls from Brazil appear much more similar to modern Australians, Melanesians, and Sub-Saharan Africans.

The study is described in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[mtbopfuyn]

Well, of course. Didn't we all learn back in 4th grade Social Studies that the American Indian originally came from Asia, up through Russia, and across the Bering Strait to Alaska?

[coconutt2000]

I wonder...

If we found a tribe of these older native Americans, do you think they'd want to build casinos? And if so, would they have a valid prior claim to native american lands?

[A CA Guy]

I've always said the Indians owe the Chinese reparations.

[xcamel]

Great story, but just a story. They're ignoring evidence that is 15-35KY older.

[yarddog]

You don't have to be a scientist to see there is a huge difference between Brazilian rain forest dwellers and Plains Indians of the United States.

They look as different as Chinese and Germans do.

[sure_fine]

the one with matter in it was repub, the empty one was all the rest

[Strategerist]

Thing of it is in terms of DNA lineage you don't see these possible Austronesian/Melanesian populations in South America currently; those same "different looking" Indians end up having the same Northeast Asian bloodlines.

It seems those populations (which could have lasted longest as some obscure tribes in Baja California, or the Tierra del Fuegans) are basically gone now.

[squarebarb]

Remember the Olmec stone heads.

[blam]

"Great story, but just a story. They're ignoring evidence that is 15-35KY older."

Will you expand on what you're talking about?

[blam]

"Thing of it is in terms of DNA lineage you don't see these possible Austronesian/Melanesian populations in South America currently; those same "different looking" Indians end up having the same Northeast Asian bloodlines."

'First Americans Were Australian'

"It seems those populations (which could have lasted longest as some obscure tribes in Baja California, or the Tierra del Fuegans) are basically gone now."

When Humboldt(sp) made his exploratory trips around the Tierra del Fuego area, he described two different peoples. One was short and stocky and made their living from the sea, the other was tall and slim, wore animal skins and made their living off the land. Two different peoples.

[blam]

"Remember the Olmec stone heads."

The Olmec And The Shang

[xcamel]

Just the simple fact that there have been "first peoples" on the north american continent for nearly 35-40 thousand years. More and more evidence piles up every day that the "conventional wisdom" is willful disregard of much more than anecdotal evidence that the "first ones" got here from europe - not asia - between the last two glaciation events, and came back to reestablish themselves at the end on the last glacial period.

By modern standards, NA north of latitude 40 would have only been uninhabitable between 15 and 27 KYa. Add to this recent evidence of "man" in Great Britan 700,000 years ago, compressing the habitation of north america to the last 20K years makes no sense at all.

[blam]

"Just the simple fact that there have been "first peoples" on the north american continent for nearly 35-40 thousand years. "

Yup.

And, if the statement (in one of his books) made by Professor Stephen Oppenheimer that the oldest (undisputed) Mongoloid skeleton ever found is only 10,000 years old, who the heck are all these people (skeletons) found in the Americas that are older than 10k years? (They're not Mongoloid/Native Americans.)

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I'm not sure but I think this means that the "Native Americans" may soon have to pay reparations to the "African Americans"?

[shuckmaster]

11,000 years is more than enough time for isolated groups of people from the same genetic stock to develop distinctly different physical traits.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nick.

Study Sheds Light On Early Migration (Americas)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 12-13-2005 | Mike Toner
Posted on 12/13/2005 10:47:40 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539670/posts

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