In the Beginning G*D...!
American Indian/Bering Strait/DNA ping...
I’m a native American. I was born and raised in this country.
blam...forgive me the typo in #1 above...”balm” indeed!
If they didn’t come from Asia, where did they come from?
bfltr
This "wellspring" population may have supported several migrations over these thousands of years?
Simply looking at languages in the Americas they are short SEVERAL HUNDRED GROUPS.
When you get back to the initial purpose of this sample it was simply to demonstrate that folks from Eastern Siberia could populate both North and South America with a single founding population.
The first problem with this study (which isn't exactly news) is that it does not deal with the previous discovery that North American Indians, but not South American Indians, share a unique DNA sequence with Sa'ami in Scandinavia and Berbers in North Africa.
I will credit them with using some "weasel words" in this report ~ e.g. "most likely" ~ so I suppose that's progress.
At the same time there's archaeological evidence that MORE THAN ONE population arrived on the West Coast ~ we got their bones!
My husband has been doing some personal research with the DNA studies and just said he understood some of the East Coast tribes came from Europe.
'Native American' is erroneous. 'Original invader' or 'primitive settler' would be much more accurate.
Not that surprising. Genetic marker science had already shown by the early 90’s that all modern humans came from one WOMAN. Then 10 years later those same scientists showed that all humans also came from one MAN. Essentially, it was genetic confirmation of the Adam and Eve story, really.
So I guess no DNA matches with any modern day descendants or relatives of those Israelite tribes exiled to Assyria around 2700 years ago?
Extensive testing and historical research shows my peoples came to America over the air bridge in a 707, circa 1968.
"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."
"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans
Read Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact by Vine Deloria. At 15 bucks or so, it's a much better investment than some NIH or NSF grant, and also more likely correct.
ML/NJ
Ping for truth!
This study does not really dispel evidence of other immigrations across the Pacific and Atlantic.
This study seems to support Greenberg’s Amerind idea about there being one basic tongue from which all the others (except two cases) descend.
DNA ping
The Tsalagi are much better looking than those other people!