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

Damien Perrotin nevesht:
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>Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>Quoting Damien Perrotin <erwan.arskoul@...>:
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>>>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
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>>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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>To begin with it's just an hypothesis to explain the presence of European
>gene among New England indians (another one would be norse/breton/basque
>sailors - or not so puritan englishmen - having some fun with indian women)
>but there seems to be some evidences pointing in that direction. So why
>didn't they expand ? There are several possibilities :
>- there already were indigenous communities (there are slim evidence for
>the presence of human societies as early as 50.000 BC)
>- they did but disapeared for some reason (bad luck, competition with other
>groups, merging with other tribes...) We know that such a fate befell the
>Dorset culture which was reduced to a single settlement and died out in
>1902. The Kennewick Man points in that direction, but of course it could
>also have been related to the Ainus or to some other group which has
>disapeared without a trace in Eurasia (or the facial reconstruction got it
>wrong)
>- Bothe migrations happened during the glacian maximum  (around 20.000 BP),
>they collided and the asiatics won. The population in Northern America was
>probably very low and neither group was fond of cave painting, so there are
>little trace.
The Tuniit culture(Dorset) died out in the XIc at latest(freeing up
Greenland for Norse settlement), the group that died out in 1902 were Inuit.
The transAtlantic connection isn't only supported by a mitochrondial
lineage(one of five, found in eastern North America)(so not from
sailors(female line)), but virtually identity between a European stone tool
tradition and the proto-Folsom tools found in Virginia, which are quite
inlike the Siberian microblade tradition. there is also a later period of
connexion during the period of the Red Paint People/Maritime Archaic(who
where succeeded by megalithic cultures in Europe and Mound Builders in North
America).
Likely, the Asia population came down the coast by ship, and since the food
was on the coast they would have taken their time before moving inland.
Linguistic evidence supports this(greater linguistic variation along the
west coast of the Americas).
Probably  none of the original settlers belonged to ethnic groups we'd
recognize today.



-Wayne Chevrier