Hi Amdrew:
Welcome back to curmudgeonry!
There is a strong theory that the first Americans made there way from Asia
when Alaska was joined to the Asian Continent by a fairly narrow land
bridge, long since vanished by continental drift. For those unfamiliar with
the effects of diptheria, merkins are genital wigs worn to mask the hair
loss due to the disease. But it is interesting to note that there is no
regional animosity between curmudgeons.
Oy oy oy
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:04 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Very OT - Gotcha
>
> Proof at last. I will be filing a joint Native Title claim on behalf of
> the Wurrundjerri and Yorta Yorta peoples immediately. We suggest that
> all present merkins drop the flag and pack your bags and get back to
> Europe, Africa or Siberia immediately - or wherever. Avoid the rush.
> Except Walt of course - hey Walt, wanna be Consul?
> AndrewF
>
> Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia?
>
> EXETER, England (Reuters) - Anthropologists stepped into a hornets'
> nest on
> Monday, revealing research that suggests the original inhabitants of
> America
> may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia.
> The claim will be extremely unwelcome to today's native Americans who
> came
> overland from Siberia and say they were there first.
> But Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool said
> skeletal
> evidence pointed strongly to this unpalatable truth and hinted that
> recovered DNA would corroborate it.
> "This is very contentious," Gonzalez, a Mexican, said with a smile at
> the
> annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of
> Science.
> "They (native Americans) cannot claim to have been the first people
> there."
> She said there was very strong evidence that the first migration came
> from
> Australia via Japan and Polynesia and down the Pacific Coast of America.
> Skulls of a people with distinctively long and narrow heads discovered
> in
> Mexico and California predated by several thousand years the more
> rounded
> features of the skulls of native Americans.
> One particularly well preserved skull of a long-face woman had been
> carbon
> dated to 12,700 years ago, whereas the oldest accurately dated native
> American skull was only about 9,000 years old.
> "We have extracted her DNA. It is going to be a bomb," she said,
> declining
> to give details but adding that the tests carried out so far were being
> replicated to make sure they were accurate.
> She said there were tales from Spanish missionaries of an isolated
> coastal
> community of long-face people in Baja California of a completely
> different
> race and rituals from other communities in America at the time.
> These last survivors were wiped out by diseases imported by the Spanish
> conquerors, Gonzalez said.
> The research is one of 11 different projects in America, Africa, Asia
> and
> the Middle East being funded over a four-year period by Britain's
> Natural
> Environment Research Council.
> The projects, focusing on diet, dating and dispersal of people down the
> millennia in the face of climate change, aim to rewrite anthropology.
> "We want to make headlines from heads," said Professor Clive Gamble of
> Southampton university. "DNA will give us a completely new map of the
> world
> and how we peopled it."
>
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