Posted on 05/02/2007 5:38:33 PM PDT by blam
Speaking of Andean stuff, Mrs. Renfield and I will be attending a lecture on Friday by Wade Davis (one of my favorite anthropologists) on the subject of Peru, at the Grosvenor Auditorium in the HQ of National Geographic in downtown DC. Wish you all could join us!
You bring me gum-gum?
Boy, I wish I could too.
If you have a Q & A session, will you ask him about the persistent stories about tall, light-skinned people, see my post #9, and, if there's nothing to them, why do they continue? If he thinks there's 'something to them', ask who they are and where did they come from. See post # 10 also. I'm sure he'll know the lady doing the skull work in that article.
The Spainiards did not have pHDs.
“Serpent and the Rainbow” author?
Yep...also author of “Shadows in the Sun”, one of my favorite books.
Something along the line of the article below.
Kuelap - The Machu Picchu Of Northern Peru (Chachapoyas - White, blonde haired people)
Any possibility of them being related to the Berbers?
I don't know. A lot of the Berber DNA came out of the Franco-Iberian refuge at the end of the last Ice Age.
Just a thought.
I agree.
I think the same of the Jomon/Ainu of Japan.
Yes, but are they fairhaired? Seems like I recall they are closer to the Ural/ middle steppes peoples with darker hair, etc.
Berbers were/are blonde/red/light haired, etc.
Just a thought.
"Lovelock, Nevada, is about eighty miles northeast of Reno. It was in a cave near here, in 1911, that guano miners found mummies, bones, and artifacts buried under four feet of bat excrement. The desiccated bodies belonged to a very tall people - with red hair. "
If you ask the Mormons, they will tell you those people were "Nephites" and "Lamanites", who Mormons say were Hebrews, as well as the American Indians were Hebrews.
The Spainiards did not have pHDs.
They also didn't write the article:
Spanish version - In claiming the heathen's treasure for Spain our brave Conquistadores have preserved this devil's bounty to the Glory of God and from future exploitation by either looting pagan PhD archeologists or the depleting, unscrupulous devil's spawn raiders of Tiwanaku.
Depleting, unscrupulous raiders of Tiwanaku version - We dig, we find, we take goodies, save shiney and interesting stuff for use by great peoples of proud, righteous liberators of Tiwanaku and not keep thingies hidden so that evil demon Spaniard or creepy leftist girly man archeologists no find same in future.
I think there is probably a clue in here:
Guanches-Canary Islands-DNA Project
"Indeed, the Guanches are deemed to be related to the Berbers of neighboring Morocco, who are, likewise, tall, blond and blue-eyed when unmixed with the Arab majority. Other specialists, however, believe that the Guanches are related to the Celts of Western Europe, the early realm of these races. No matter what, the Guanches represent a unique opportunity of studying the early peoples of this region."
My y-chromosome DNA is R1b.
The Chachapoya, distinguished by fair skin and great height, lived primarily on ridges and mountaintops in circular stone houses.
Thanks blam!
Excellent points.
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