Indian DNA Links To 6 'Founding Mothers'

Yahoo News/AP ^ | 3-13-2008 | Malcom Ritter

[Coyoteman]

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Just saying it’s possible?

There is no scientific evidence of appreciable continental movements during human times.

About the only folks who claim otherwise are trying to fit continental drift within religiously-based young earth ages. Is this what you are suggesting?

[Stonewall Jackson]

Did somebody say something about strange skulls found in New Mexico?

[allmendream]

Not just yams (south America to Polynesia) but also chickens. Recently chicken remains were found (pre-Columbian) in South America. Chickens are originally (pre domestication) Southeast Asian Jungle Fowl. So the Polynesians may have not brought women (or if they did they took their babies back with them) but they did bring (and leave behind) chickens.

Check out Thor Heyerdahl's book/documentary movie “Kon Tiki”.

[TN4Liberty]

About the only folks who claim otherwise are trying to fit continental drift within religiously-based young earth ages. Is this what you are suggesting?

Can't find a fight, so you want to make one?

[wolfcreek]

About the only folks who claim otherwise are trying to fit continental drift within religiously-based young earth ages. Is this what you are suggesting?

Uh, No. However, taking into consideration that catastrophic events such as earthquakes or the Christmas tsunami which moved some land as much as several miles, certain groups might of woke up one morning and discovered their kin many miles away on the other side of an abyss. Also considering how much father the origins of man have been pushed back in time, how do we really know when *human times* began? If not modern day humans, their ancestors? Not trying to argue just, asking questions.

[Coyoteman]

However, taking into consideration that catastrophic events such as earthquakes or the Christmas tsunami which moved some land as much as several miles, certain groups might of woke up one morning and discovered their kin many miles away on the other side of an abyss. Also considering how much father the origins of man have been pushed back in time, how do we really know when *human times* began? If not modern day humans, their ancestors? Not trying to argue just, asking questions.

OK.

There have been events in recorded history that would have had significant effects on populations. The largest that comes immediately to mind would have been the Toba volcanic eruption some 73,000 years ago. This is illustrated in Journey of Mankind.

The post-Ice Age floods in eastern Washington that formed the channeled scablands would also have been impressive, but there weren't very many people in that area at the time.

[wolfcreek]

That’s what’s so cool about history. Ya learn something new everyday if you don’t ever call your theory *conclusive*

Like the idiot MMGW scientists.

[blam]

2007 - Year Of The Lapita? (Polynesian Breakthroughs)

"The discovery that chicken bones from ancient Polynesian sites in Tonga and Samoa and El Arenal, a Chilean site occupied between A.D. 700 and 1390, had identical DNA. The chicken was domesticated in Southeast Asia, but how it arrived in the New World before Europeans arrived was a mystery. Now it seems that Polynesian seafarers brought them, adding to the evidence for trans-Pacific contacts. The presence of South American sweet potatoes and bottle gourds on Pacific islands had already hinted at this, along with some (to my mind less convincing) evidence that complex fishhooks and sewn plank canoes used by southern California Indians had Polynesian origins.

[allmendream]

That would be the one! Thor Hyradahl was really on to something. Thanks for the citation. :)

[Old Student]

“How am I supposed to keep all my PC lingo straight?”

You aren’t. That way, nearly anyone can call you racist.

[Ciexyz]

Who were the Si-Te-Cah? (Post 39)

Interesting link to the Red-haired Tribe people.

[Trillian]

Thanks for posting :)

[SunkenCiv]