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Repost of an old article. There are no skeletons/evidence of American Indians/Native Americans (as we know them today) that are older than 6,000 years old in the Americas.

There will be a one hour special, "Neanderthals On Trial", on PBS, 1-22-2002.

1 posted on 01/21/2002 5:30:59 AM PST by blam

"Scale down the heavy teeth, jaws and brow of the Neanderthal and you have a European, he said. "

Or the Junior Senator from New York.

2 posted on 01/21/2002 5:42:25 AM PST by billorites

One theory has it that Europeans derive larger noses, lighter skin, blonde hair, and more body hair -- among other adaptations for colder climates -- from Neanderthals. Presumably, the superior Cro-Magnon invaders killed the Neanderthal men and mated with the women.

3 posted on 01/21/2002 5:43:52 AM PST by Grand Old Partisan

The baffling 9,300-year-old Kennewick Man, whose skeleton was unearthed in 1996 in Washington state, looks so “European” because he had Neanderthal roots, a scientist said today.

Maybe it's baffling because there is something wrong with the ability to date these bodies. Or maybe it's baffling because Neanderthals aren't real.

4 posted on 01/21/2002 5:44:11 AM PST by AD from SpringBay

Try this out. When the first skull of was found in the Neandethal region, it was taken to a medical doctor who diagnosed the person as having severe ricketts, a bone deformity condition caused by a lack of vitamin D.

5 posted on 01/21/2002 5:47:29 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants

It is a controversial theory because most scientists believe that Neanderthals were an evolutionary dead-end...

There ya go - evolutionary "science" is a belief system.

6 posted on 01/21/2002 5:48:04 AM PST by ValerieUSA

American Neanderthal? So? I've been compared to a Neanderthal on various occasions ... ;)

7 posted on 01/21/2002 5:53:40 AM PST by BluH2o

But there IS evidence that there were humans here before 10,000 years ago...whatever their origin. I think the 'midland' man (who was really a woman) is one example. There were others somewhere in southern California. By the way, I see no conflict between evolution and religion. Am amazed by those who are threatened by that branch of academia which studies evolution.

9 posted on 01/21/2002 6:16:41 AM PST by Dudoight

Love these articles you post. You don't seem real big on ping lists but I would appriciate one thrown my way.

16 posted on 01/21/2002 3:38:55 PM PST by farmfriend

He's quite obviously French, not Neanderthal. From the LaBarre area I would guess...

17 posted on 01/21/2002 3:54:19 PM PST by Redcloak

'First Americans were Australian'

The first Americans were descended from Australian aborigines, according to evidence in a new BBC documentary.

The skulls suggest faces like those of Australian aborigines

The programme, Ancient Voices, shows that the dimensions of prehistoric skulls found in Brazil match those of the aboriginal peoples of Australia and Melanesia. Other evidence suggests that these first Americans were later massacred by invaders from Asia.

Until now, native Americans were believed to have descended from Asian ancestors who arrived over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and then migrated across the whole of north and south America. The land bridge was formed 11,000 years ago during the ice age, when sea level dropped.

However, the new evidence shows that these people did not arrive in an empty wilderness. Stone tools and charcoal from the site in Brazil show evidence of human habitation as long ago as 50,000 years.

The site is at Serra Da Capivara in remote northeast Brazil. This area is now inhabited by the descendants of European settlers and African slaves who arrived just 500 years ago.

But cave paintings found here provided the first clue to the existence of a much older people.

The costumes and rituals shown in rock art survived in Terra del Fuego

Images of giant armadillos, which died out before the last ice age, show the artists who drew them lived before even the natives who greeted the Europeans.

These Asian people have facial features described as mongoloid. However, skulls dug from a depth equivalent to 9,000 to 12,000 years ago are very different.

Walter Neves, an archaeologist from the University of Sao Paolo, has taken extensive skull measurements from dozens of skulls, including the oldest, a young woman who has been named Lucia.

"The measurements show that Lucia was anything but mongoloid," he says.

Walter Neves has measured hundreds of skulls

The next step was to reconstruct a face from Lucia's skull. First, a CAT scan of the skull was done, to allow an accurate working model to be made.

Then a forensic artist, Richard Neave from the University of Manchester, UK, created a face for Lucia. The result was surprising: "It has all the features of a negroid face," says Dr Neave.

Lucia's skull is 12,000 years old The skull dimensions and facial features match most closely the native people of Australia and Melanesia. These people date back to about 60,000 years, and were themselves descended from the first humans, who left Africa about 100,000 years ago.

But how could the early Australians have travelled more than 13,500 kilometres (8,450 miles) at that time? The answer comes from more cave paintings, this time from the Kimberley, a region at the northern tip of Western Australia.

Here, Grahame Walsh, an expert on Australian rock art, found the oldest painting of a boat anywhere in the world. The style of the art means it is at least 17,000 years old, but it could be up to 50,000 years old.

And the crucial detail is the high prow of the boat. This would have been unnecessary for boats used in calm, inland waters. The design suggests it was used on the open ocean.

Fantastic voyage

Archaeologists speculate that such an incredible sea voyage, from Australia to Brazil, would not have been undertaken knowingly but by accident.

Just three years ago, five African fishermen were caught in a storm and a few weeks later were washed up on the shores of South America. Two of the fishermen died, but three made it alive.

Walter Neves says the negroid people disappear 7,000 years ago

But if the first Americans had drifted from Australia, where are their descendants now? Again, the skulls suggest an answer.

The shape of the skulls changes between 9,000 and 7,000 years ago from being exclusively negroid to exclusively mongoloid. Combined with rock art evidence of increasing violence at this time, it appears that the mongoloid people from the north invaded and wiped out the original Americans.

Fuegean Cristina Calderon may be one of the few surviving descendants of the first Americans

The only evidence of any survivors comes from Terra del Fuego, the islands at the remotest southern tip of South America.

The pre-European Fuegeans, who lived stone age-style lives until this century, show hybrid skull features which could have resulted from intermarrying between mongoloid and negroid peoples. Their rituals and traditions also bear some resemblance to the ancient rock art in Brazil.

The identity of the first Americans is an emotive and controversial question. But the evidence from Brazil, and a handful of people who still live at the very tip of South America, suggests that the Americas have been home to a greater diversity of humans than previously thought - and for much longer.

38 posted on 01/22/2002 6:05:49 AM PST by blam

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