Were they European-Americans, rather than Siberian-Americans?
[Update a few minutes later, after reading the whole thing.]
Heh. “Iberia, not Siberia.” And not “Clovis first.”
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Were they European-Americans, rather than Siberian-Americans?
[Update a few minutes later, after reading the whole thing.]
Heh. “Iberia, not Siberia.” And not “Clovis first.”
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So whos Casino we takin’ over?
I await a pre-historic remake of “Dances with Wolves.”
Wasn’t there some discovery regarding “Kennebunkport Man”, DNA ties to a Celtic origin, affected linguistic patterns involving the dropping of “r” sounds but otherwise hard to place?
My bad. In my rush to riff on Kennewick Man, a putative paleo-European American discovered in the Pacific Northwest, I confused Kennebunkport, ME with Hyannis Port, MA. Kennebunkport has the Bush association whereas the Kennedy association is with Hyannis Port. Sorry for ruining a good political joke.
This theory couldn’t possibly be right. The science is settled!
Settled it is !
What are you think you are doing ? Science.
It seems we want to look at migration as a winner takes all proposition. I think that does not describe us in our natural state. We are pressed forward by forces from behind and we crash up onto the rocks. Most times with disastrous results. We fall back, but eventually pressure from behind drives us forward again. Hopefully lessons are learned, technologies mature and eventually we press slightly forward. I think our migration was like that. Making it somewhere first doesn’t mean you succeeded. It means you left the first dead. It’s not… Did we come from the west or the east. We came from everywhere. We were just one wave of humanity after another crashing down, until we met ourselves on the other side of the world, and finally stopped. Space travel will be a lot like this as well.
I just want to say, as a member of the neo-Solutrean community, that I bear no ill will toward the descendants of the Siberian settlers who committed cultural, and possibly physical genocide against our paleo-Solutrean cousins. It was all a long time ago and in any event, I don’t believe in pass down blame on the basis of the actions of somebody’s ancestors. Can’t we all just get along?
Solutrean Affirmative Action and Reparations NOW !
Maybe Columbus Day should be repositioned as a celebration of the Iberians taking back what was one theirs from the Siberians 🙂
Actually that is going to be the big issue with this theory, namely the political fallout if the first Americans were really from Europe and the new immigrates from Asia wiped them out. Although it is possible there were survivors if this genetic evidence holds up.
http://www.humanjourney.us/america2.html
[[[There are five haplogroups found in the genes of present-day Native Americans, labeled A, B, C, D, plus an appropriately named haplogroup X.]]]
[[[But it is the origin of haplogroup X that may have the most significance for the Solutrean Hypothesis. While less common than the other four haplogroups, it is still widespread, even in South America, and is found in greatest frequency in the tribes of the northeastern United States. This marker cannot be traced back to a shared ancestor anywhere in Siberia or eastern Asia, but it is similar to a haplogroup in European populations.]]]
Maybe Columbus Day should be renamed Return Day. We’re baa – aack!
Seriously, it is likely that the Solutreans mixed with the Siberian incomers; that’s what usually happens with population movements. Just as a great many Americans have American Indian ancestry, whether they’re on the official tribal rolls or not. But maybe we should start referring to them as the Second Nations.
” He calls the Solutrean hypothesis “a skeletal idea.” And he worries that a rising sea might have washed away compelling evidence.”
Another victim of global warming…