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gorseddphungus G
gorseddphungus Mar 17, 2006 20:00:07
Replying to FourWinds

"Some recent skeleton discoveries in the US have put some doubt that the south American population came via north America"

They could have come via south America or even Antarctica! Could Easter Island have provided the base for incursions from Melanesia (?). Are those the ones where some pre-Clovis/Clovis-related skeletons were involved? I am sure that the native Americans are so different because of different migrations at different times and from different places, even all Asian. The dates keep being pushed back probably because of that.

P PeterH
PeterH Mar 17, 2006 21:07:42
Replying to gorseddphungus

Now, with the discussion widening to include Easter Island and the Pacific, we really are in Thor Heyerdahl territory. He showed that balsa rafts could cross the Pacific, that reed boats could cross the Atlantic and were painted on the walls of Tassili in the Sahara when it was green and fertile. He also reckoned that the Berbers crossed the Atlantic. Even though genetics later disproved some of his ideas about the direction of movement and settlement of islands in the Pacific, his books are still worth reading and are mind expanding. He died a year or so ago aged about 80 and was still working on pyramids in Peru at Tucume.