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

From:Damien Perrotin <erwan.arskoul@...>
Date:Sunday, September 25, 2005, 6:51
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
>I do know, that if polynesians can travel to places like New Zealand and >Hawaii and Guam and more, they could have travelled to more than just there >but was absorbed or .. what? > >Austeroid, could have been absorbed by the polynesians or wiped out? >Cannibalism was supposedly done in New Zealand? before contact? > >But you never know.. > >Malay are often asian looking? But Polynesians seem to be heavier boned, >bigger and such? Diet or some mixture with someone? Austeroids or what? > > >
Or natural selection. Crossing the ocean on a canoe in a straining experience. Lightly boned guys did not make it or had the sense not to try.
>Mike > >

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