The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 07/03/2008 4:55:14 AM PDT by Renfield
Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students on the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns decades of classroom lessons that nomadic tribes from Asia crossed a Bering Strait land-ice bridge. Valparaiso is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research.....
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
As far as this recent claim by one FReeper...
There’s not even overwhelming evidence of *just one* migration into the Americas, and there’s not even overwhelming evidence that the land bridge was used for ingress at all. The current non-Euro Arctic populations have languages which are related and haven’t diverged much, showing they’ve come over more recently than the variety of different (McWhorter describes it as a “riot” I think) languages elsewhere in the Americas.
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana
Physorg | 7-1-2008 | University of Cincinnati
Posted on 07/02/2008 3:27:51 PM PDT by blam
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That depends a lot on which tribes you’re talking about. Most of my Indian friends are Sioux, and they look more Asian than Portuguese, IMHO.
I think another person posted (and it makes sense) that the western Natives looked more Asian, such as Hawaiian and Sioux being more toward the west, you are probably right.
But the Seminole and Cherokee (originally from south US) tend to have the Portugese look I think. Didn’t the Portugese and Spanish discover the islands south of the US? The difference in Cherokee and Sioux are vast. The nose and eyes especially. The Western Natives tend to have a more mongoloid eye type and broader/flatter nose. Where the eastern Natives have the longer, thinner nose and a more European/Caucasian lidded eye.
Now I am talking out my butt here, I am in now way an anthrological expert at all and I am merely making some uneducated observations, so please don’t hate me or flame me. Sometimes when I post I feel so darn stupid, but I want to interject too, you know?
Anyway, if I am ever wrong, just tell me. I won’t get upset Freepers! I love to learn new things and I haven’t seen many stupid people on here, so I take your knowledge to heart.
Thanks
As a Freeper and a "Savage", I appreciate more theories and observations. Here's one that I came up with years ago (I'm talkin' grade school):
Thinking about the migration of peoples, in school we were told we all came out of Africa, and my people were wandering Asians..
I thought about this and about the emergence time stories from my family (Dine' or Navajo) and considered the different appearances of peoples.
Why do Asians have slanted eyes? Is it because of bright sun? if so, why do Africans lack this?
Who else has slanted eyes? The far north peoples - snow glare.
there's a bunch more but what I came up with is that modern humans or at least a sizable portion of them came from here, the Americas.
Blowing sands and dust in the Gobi Desert?
The Asian scientists and anthropologists have been arguing for years that *we* did not come from Africa, but from Asia. The eyes aren’t actually slanted, but have the mongoloid feature that gives them an extra fold of skin lower into the eye, that gives them a slanted look. I read an anthrological book once that was fascinating and the reasons people evolved how they did. And why. Although some remains a mystery.
Thanks for the ping. This is an interesting theory. Personally, I think there were multiple migrations from different places at different times.
“Why do we limit ourselves to a single migration theory?”
Good question, and good reason for anyone to remove themself from the collective “we” in that question.
An intelligent person should realize we are in kindergarten when it comes to understanding the human past (any of it) in the western hemisphere, and just as ignorant in understanding the human past in Eurasia prior to 4 or 5,000 B.C.
No one should believe most of what the archeologists say as more than theories.
“Why do we limit ourselves to a single migration theory?”
Good question, and good reason for anyone to remove themself from the collective “we” in that question.
An intelligent person should realize we are in kindergarten when it comes to understanding the human past (any of it) in the western hemisphere, and just as ignorant in understanding the human past in Eurasia prior to 4 or 5,000 B.C.
No one should believe most of what the archeologists say as more than theories.
They don’t want conclusions...they want GRANT MONEY!!
This is from 2008.........
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