Re: Dates of Human Diaspora WAS: Re: PIE and Nostratic

Quoting Damien Perrotin <erwan.arskoul@...>:

> Michael Adams wrote:
>
> >>From what I had read, they found skeltons in southern south america, that
> >date from the same time as the bering land bridge, so either people moved
> >very fast, or they came from some where else.
> >
> >Oddity for me, Tlingit indians of the Pacific North Coast/Alaskan SE, have
> >many features in common with Polynesians, to include Totem Art, head dress
> >and like things..
> >
> >Does not mean they are polynesians, but ..
> >
> >Heh, if you look at the world from a polar realtion, you can see that
> >someone could have come/gone to/from North America by Greenland/Iceland..
> >
> >They have been finding "European" genes in New England Indians, but the
> >genes have been shifted some ages ago (?15,000?). So people from Europe came
> >there? or someone went to Europe or ..
> >
> >
> >
> at that time it was theoretically possible to "walk" from Europe to
> America on the icepack, so an inuit-like seal-hunting tribe could have
> make it. Since the coastal areas were flooded at the end of the Ice Age,
> we wouldn't find any remains. Now they were unlikely to have been
> numerous : hunting seas in an ice desert is a rather harsh way of life
But if they made over to the N American mainland before the Asiatics got there,
one'd expect them to expand quickly south and west in the non-glaciated areas.

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