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Posted on 05/11/2006 5:09:23 PM PDT by blam
Ancient American Skeleton Has European DNA Link
[Original headline: Sinkhole Skeleton Skeleton’s DNA Could Shed Light on American Migrations]
Vanlue, Ohio [AP] — The discovery of prehistoric tools from an Ohio cave is one of several finds that has scientists questioning the identity of settlers thought to have moved in 11,000 years ago.
A just completed excavation of Sheriden Cave in Wyandot County, 100 miles southwest of Cleveland, revealed tools made from flaked stone and bone. The items are scheduled to go on display next year at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Kent State University archaeologist Kenneth Tankersley, who led the excavation over the past four years, said definite answers won’t come until someone finds an Ice Age skeleton and the DNA is tested.
Rare Genetic Link to Europe
“Disagreement swirls around the timing of their arrival, the nature of their migration, how fast they moved across the landscape and their relationship to contemporary Native Americans,” he said.
Some scientists think that the earliest colonizers could have started out somewhere in Europe, not in Asia as previously thought. That idea is rooted in a rare genetic link called haplogroup X - DNA passed down through women that dates back more than 30,000 years.
Recent genetic samples from remains in Illinois show that the rare European DNA was around centuries before European exploration. Today, haplogroup X is found in about 20,000 American Indians.
To some researchers, its presence suggests the Mongolian ancestors of most American Indians were latecomers. Genetic tests show the DNA is completely absent from East Asian and Siberian populations.
That could dispel the more than half-century old notion that humans migrated across a land bridge from Siberia at the end of the Ice Age, made stone tools and hunted while moving south.
Archaeologists since 1996 have found genetic indications of several migrations, along with evidence that people came from Polynesia, regions near Japan and even western Europe.
Skeleton Has Scientists Jumpy
“Frankly, it makes me nervous,” Smithsonian Institution anthropologist Stephen Loring said of the idea that the first Americans during the Ice Age were of European ancestry.
“It’s a heretical argument, and some people, unfortunately, will use it to assert the cultural superiority of Europeans. But it’s a good theory that needs to be tested.”
Tankersley and Brian Redmond, head of archaeology at the Cleveland Natural History Museum, have been seeking clues about the first colonizers from the cave, which is hidden 50 feet below cornfields.
“To find human remains of that age, 11,000 years old, is really, really rare, and I don’t think there are any in that cavern. We would have found them,” Redmond said. But he added, “Who knows what may turn up in the future. We’re certain it was a camping area.”
Farmers and landowners fear they could be tied up in litigation by preservationists and Indian tribes if old bones are disturbed.
“We know of places where you could probably find human remains up here,” said Keith Hendricks, a Hancock County sheriff’s deputy whose family owns the sinkhole where the Ice Age relics have been recovered. “But the problem is you’d be opening a Pandora’s box. It’s a sensitive issue.”
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ABCNEWS.com - November 27 2000
And yesterday I couldn't spell arkenologist, today I are one?
They've been modified by the addition of cement collars however.
These would be the ONLY Old World pre-Columbian artifacts in the New World to which we can assign a precise date and point of origin (at least for the builders).
Any of'em that were born here ARE "native Americans", just like thee and me.
Oh, Geez, has this guy figured out how to capitalize on saying the politically correct thing. Must be looking for a promotion.
I did a google search and found zero mention of Deer Stones in Brown County, Indiana. Do you have any links, references?
did they find an ancient can of bondo and a camaro on blocks?
ROTFLMAO...I'm looking into reparations.
Bring your reparation down to the lucky 21 table, drinks on the house.
IMHO, if you are born here and accept the Pledge of Allegiance (with or without God in it), you ARE a Native American. That's the end of the story and exactly what I taught my kids. They are not hyphenated anything. They are Native Americans and it does not matter a damn which stone age DNA got here first. That stuff is all nonsense which ever way people want to spin it.
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You take FEMA cards, right?
I had read a story several years ago that had the same facts in it - that the 'native americans' came across from european stocks (at least some of them).
We also have a cat house for your dogs.
Last time I took my dogs to a cat house, I ended up in the dog house.
Hey, what happens at the cat house, stays at the cat house.
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Damn DNA evidence....
Best laugh of the day. Thanks.
I agree on the native Americans part.
But, I have been trying to figure out what prehistoric peoples did in the western US, and when they did it, for 35 years, and I don't see that as nonsense.
mtDNA studies are rewriting the book on who did what to whom, where, and when. It is a fascinating study, and the results are just starting to come in.
Now, various folks may be putting a spin on things, but my goal is to figure out what really happened. If we can document what happened, the spin is useless.
The actual picture of the populating of North America is looking pretty complex, with the folks trudging through Beringia and Canada at the end of the last Ice Age may have come in third!
But stay tuned, the game's still afoot!
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