Posted on 02/26/2010 10:41:37 AM PST by Palter
Berbers were Solutreans ?
So, yup, as were the Clovis culture ~ they made slightly modified Solutreans spearpoints.
Their culture disappeared at the onset of the Younger Dryas. It did not reappear later. Instead a different culture showed up making different spearpoints.
One theory has the X-factor genetic coding showing up later as demonstrating that the Sa'ami were here earlier. The defect here is that we haven't found any clear cut Clovis points after the Younger Dryas.
Another thoery has the X-factor genetic coding showing up later well-imbeded in the chromosomes of the Yakuts ~ but they didn't arrive until about 5000 BC, not 9500 BC.
More recently they've found a single human copralite in a cave in Oregon and they're arguing this proves arrival of yet another group from Asia at 17,000 to 14,000 years ago.
Yet another group ended up in Southern Chile at a very early time, and the folks living at the tip of Baja California until a couple of centuries ago were clearly the same as aboriginal Australians!
Many different groups appear to have come to America from Asia during the last 10,000 years of the last period of maximum glaciation. Assuming they had boats, the only question remaining is why didn't the other groups come here?
Frequent trips to America by Europeans and Africans appear to have not begun until no more than 800 years ago.
At that time Europeans came into possession of a boat hull design satisfactory for use in the North Atlantic. The Sa'ami, a group which also carries the X-factor genes, created that design fiddling around in mountain streams inland in Scandinavia, as well as in the Arctic ocean ~ both very rigorous environments not at all like the placid Mediterranean.
You find the Sa'ami traveling around with the Vikings right from the very beginning of their involvement with Europeans.
Due to their cold climate adaptations they moved readily into the whaling industryof the 19th century ~ and spread their special genes to other populations ~ even those at the Equator.
That means that the first out-of-Africa humans made it to the New World. It is my understanding that the Australian Aborigenes are the tail end of that trek, having left a genetic track across South Asia, with the VERY dark Dravidians showing evidence of these genes (as well as the Andaman Islanders). The small populations of Negritos scattered in pockets throughout Asia and the Indian Ocean are also a remnant as I understand. What is a good laymans source for this genetic research? I have always been very interested in this subject.
I subscribe to Science News, and that really helps you keep ahead of this stuff.
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