Viggen Posted September 7, 2004 Report Share Posted September 7, 2004 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. 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. full article at Yahoo News Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callaecus Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 It's possible that there were more migrations to America than previously thought, but it must be noticed that they all went through the Bering strait and not by boat across the Pacific, since there are no archaeological remains of human occupation in those islands before the Polynesians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Thats ridiculous. Polynesians, yes. Australians, no. The vast majority of Australia is very inhospitable place and certainly could not support a civilization that could travel to the Americas. Polynesians populated New Zealand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
votadini Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Seems to go against the standard Australian argument that they were in fact settled by people fromPapua New Guinea who crossed to what is the Northern Territory when the seas were lower and easier to traverse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Neil Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Is it not the case that most of them came via the Bering strait, but that small numbers may have come from elsewhere? North America is a huge continent, so I dont see why one has to entirely embrace one theory or disregard another. I saw a television programme on the BBC recently which showed tool technology in the eastern US from about 10'000 BC, and they compared it to tools in Western Europe from the same period. They were identical, which suggests a migration - one direction or another - via the ice floes accross the North Atlantic. There is room for Australians, Europeans and Siberians in such a huge place, but I think the dominant population originally hailed from Siberia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 I don't much care who came to the Americas first. The important thing is who did something about it. Regardless of prejuidices, Columbus was the one who told others about it, and did somethig about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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