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Ancient DNA Links Native Americans to Europe
Science Magazine ^
| 11/5/13
| Michael Balter
Posted on 11/07/2013 8:52:57 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Psalm 73
As opposed to coming through Alaska and Canada through a gap in the continental glaciers, as we were all taught.
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posted on
11/07/2013 9:43:07 AM PST
by
DManA
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
There were Caucasian populations in eastern Asia into historical times, e.g., the Tarim Basin mummies, who had European features and wore clothing similar to what was worn in neolithic Europe. The Tocharian languages, of the same Indo-European language family as English and Latin, were spoken in parts of western China until around 900 AD. There are still some instances of light eyed and brown or blond haired people, not of Russian origin, in western China, Mongolia, and the Central Asian republics formerly parts of the Soviet Union.
If there were European-like people in eastern Asia in prehistoric times and a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, as many suppose, they could have used this land bridge to migrate into the Americas as did those of Mongolian background. This may be more plausible than the suggestion that western Europeans, possibly like the Basques, migrated across the Atlantic via small boats.
To: ek_hornbeck
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posted on
11/07/2013 9:59:12 AM PST
by
alphadog
(2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
To: MestaMachine
While there is little doubt neat things are concealed near—or beneath—the Bering Strait, they’re pretty much inaccessible.
I’ve been there, and can assure you nobody’s going to find much evidence of anything other than fog and ice for quite a long time.
To: sickoflibs
I’m sure that a lot of Mormons were disappointed to find out that this study didn’t find any Middle Eastern ancestry among American Indians (since they make the ridiculous claim that American Indians are actually one of the “Lost Tribes” or somesuch)!
To: MestaMachine
According to a book I’m currently reading (Invented Knowledge by Ronald Fritze), the Clovis culture idea that most paleontologists and those sorts of people believe (the first Americans came over about 12000-14000 years ago) is false. Bone fragments indicate earlier people by thousands of years.
To: MestaMachine
Anyone ever consider that DNA links Europe to Native Americans and they have it backwards? Native Americans didnt come from Europe. Europeans came from Native Americans. Since the oldest human skeletons from Europe predate the oldest from the Americas by tens of thousands of years, this doesn't sound very plausible.
To: ek_hornbeck
So are Indians that have blond hair and blue eyes offended by the team name Redskins?
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posted on
11/07/2013 10:15:36 AM PST
by
11th Commandment
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: Gaffer
You’re right, politically this is irrelevant. I posted it because it was interesting, not because I thought that this information would help eliminate all of the Federal perks that Indians get.
To: DManA
You are speaking of the Ainu who were the original inhabitants of Japan before the invasions from China over two milenia ago. Yes they were/are caucasians..
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posted on
11/07/2013 10:58:54 AM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: DManA
"As opposed to...."
I know - I was just being a smart-ass.......
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posted on
11/07/2013 11:26:23 AM PST
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: ek_hornbeck
when my siblings and I used to ask our parents “where were we from” my dad would say “we are all mongrels”
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posted on
11/07/2013 12:08:49 PM PST
by
Wuli
To: onedoug
To: ek_hornbeck
It’s more plausible than we all showed up from Africa one day when Africa hasn’t yet fully evolved as of one second ago.
Has there ever been a theory accepted as fact for years that has not had to be ‘rethought’?
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posted on
11/07/2013 2:35:49 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
To: ek_hornbeck
There is no such thing as a “native American”.
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posted on
11/07/2013 2:36:36 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: ek_hornbeck; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks ek_hornbeck.
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posted on
11/07/2013 8:21:43 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: bunkerhill7
Why did Constantinople get the works?
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posted on
11/07/2013 8:25:56 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: muir_redwoods; DManA
Ainu? You might consider
THEIR likely ancestors, the
JOMON ...
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posted on
11/07/2013 8:55:16 PM PST
by
ForGod'sSake
(2C7:14 If my people..shall humble themselves and pray..I will hear from heaven..and heal their land.)
To: MestaMachine
The smart ones left millennia ago; only the morons and Democrat-equivs stayed in Africa.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:21:10 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:26:34 AM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
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