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According to this presentation, North America was populated BEFORE Western Europe.

Well, thas going to take some time to sink all the way in. I had always assumed that North American human populations to be recent arrivals and Western Europeans to be the real "old timers". Turns out, its the other way around or at least on somewhat equal time frames.

What an interesting archaeological tool that Mitochondrial DNA turns out to be!

Its iteresting to note that all of human civilization has happened in just the last 7,000 years. I also read in relation to the "Kennewick man" Case that all of the racial differences that we talk about as being so important to us today, didnt start to transpire until fairly recently. Go back 10,000 years and people pretty much all look the same, because, well, they are the same!

Now, if we can start DNA testing Native American gravesites, whe might find the answer to "What happened to the sailors and soldiers that Sir Francis Drake left behind in North America?" Which is a mystery that I have wondered about for a long time. Maybe now we will really find out where the anasazi went to? Although it will take longer to find out why they left in the first place...

Posted @ October 18, 2005 10:47 AM | Current Affairs