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RE: Where did Native American Indians Originally Come From?
(08-27-2015 04:59 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: (08-26-2015 12:55 PM)bullet Wrote: (07-08-2015 04:06 PM)bitcruncher Wrote: The Clovis point people, originally discovered in Clovis, NM, are one of the early peoples nobody can agree upon. Some scientists prefer to think of them as a purely American people, some say the first American people. But there's evidence in Oregon for an older people, and there's evidence pointing to the origins of the Clovis people as coming from France.
The Atlantic was smaller at that time, since it's been widening at about 1 1/2" per year since that time. Ocean levels were probably a bit lower then too. So crossing the ocean wouldn't be the daunting task it is today. It's not as outrageous an idea as some scientists suppose.
But since that was over 20,000 years ago, it's kind of hard to tell.
The latest DNA evidence points to all being from Asia, from a population that both went into the Americas and into Europe.
Nailing down a migratory people can be difficult, when you're looking at something over 20,000 years in the past.
That's what makes the DNA analysis interesting.
Here's one:
http://in.rbth.com/economics/2014/01/07/...32115.html
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From these results, the study concluded that genes typical of the people of West Eurasia came to the American continent earlier than previously believed - namely 24,000 years ago, during the Upper Paleolithic period. Furthermore, the data revealed why Indians carry the haplogroup X, a mitochondrial DNA haplogroup commonly occurring among the peoples of western Eurasia, but not found among East Asians.....
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