Posted on 04/02/2020 6:12:29 AM PDT by rktman
Tens of thousands of years ago, two gigantic ice sheets smothered the northernmost parts of what has since been named North America. They towered more than two kilometers high and contained 1.5 times as much water as Antarctica does today. They were daunting, impassable barriers to the early humans who had started moving east from Asia, walking across a land bridge that once connected the regions now known as Russia and Alaska. But once the ice started to melt, these peoples—the ancestors of the Americas’ Indigenous groups—spread southward into new lands.
What happened next?
Genetic studies, based on ancient remains, had already suggested that once the first American Indians got south of the ice, 14,600 to 17,500 years ago, they split into two main branches. One stayed north, giving rise to the Algonquian-speaking peoples of Canada. The other headed south, giving rise to the widespread Clovis culture, and to Central and South Americans. That’s a very rough outline, but a study from J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar and his colleagues fleshes it out. They showed that whatever happened south of the ice, it happened fast.
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Was your summary an attempt to get all the cliches out so we wouldn’t have to be bombarded by them further down in the thread?
High speed trail! TEE HEE
“Both sides of my family had “part Indian” stories once doing so became cool. MY DNA test, that of my mom, and my only living Aunt on Dad’s side all showed ZERO Indian.”
That could be the story on my Dad’s side, which supposedly had the Indian ancestors. DNA shows nothing. However, they had several founding fathers, Mayflower people and other notables going back to Scottish royalty. Many of which were killed and often brutally by their royal Brit cousins. There were rumors of a retired judge going back and destroying records to remove any non white ancestors last century.
Of course no mention of our African Blood which supposedly is documented back to the 1800’s on either side.
My Mother’s side with some UK royal DNA and zero mention of being Indian is the side with the written documentation of Indian Ancestors from the late 1700’s to/before the Civil war. That side may also,have been the ones with some African DNA, which no one bragged about nor mentioned.
Which Mayflower ancestor(s)..Mine are the Billington’s.
Hopkins, Stephen
On, I am just sure we would have NEVER been able to do any of that. </ sarcasm>
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