I once got what we could call, an 'impression'. Of a white people, in North America, being overcome, by dark invaders. { this was of course only a 'thing of my imagination'. But I, believe that such things often do tell us of reality. And Very Importantly, realize, that they more often Don't. }
So anyway. I guessed the invaders must come from the south. And imagined the white survivors to have fled in boats to northern Europe. , That was my 'impression'. { I did find, FWIW, in my later web searches, 'archaeological evidence' of negroid peoples in South America. That predated common theory as well }
Then thinking about it.
- It did seem right that lighter skinned people would tend to be found in a place like North America. (less Ultra Violet / no need for dark skin pigment)
- And that if my impression were the case. It might explain, How the advanced technology of the Incas could have been there in the first place. And then abandoned. ('Whiter' peoples seem traditionally to be more technologically inclined).
- As well as why there might be Legends of a white 'god' fleeing in a boat and vowing return and vengeance.
My knowledge of relevant history and archeology was (and still is), very meager. So, I 'googled' (“yahoo”ed actually. But same difference)
I found as I already vaguely knew. That the common belief was that the first people to reach North America crossed the " Beringia" land bridge over the Bering Strait, from Siberia to Alaska, during the period of lowered sea levels during the ice age. {22,000-7,000 years Before Present}. Then made their way southward through an ice-free corridor east of the Rocky Mountains, in present-day western Canada, as the glaciers retreated. {sometime after 16,500 years ago} I did remember from watching 'science type' IV shows (probably PBS). That: 1. A fossil of a human footprint in the grand canyon river base that was 4 thousand years older than 'they' say humans arrived in America. 2. Cocaine was found in some Egyptian tomb. Which was dated before 'they' say man crossed the ocean. (Cocaine originated in South America, they say) I have no sources for these. :(
But. My web searches also led to,
The Kennewick Man {PBS / Nova} Quote:
" Mystery of the First Americans
In 1996, near Kennewick, Washington, a suspected murder victim is identified by forensic anthropologists as Caucasian - but turns out to be almost 10,000 years old. For fifty years our picture of prehistoric America has rested on the premise that the earliest inhabitants of the Americas were east Asians of mongoloid stock, the ancestors of today's Native Americans. But the discovery of the Kennewick Man, along with several other startling finds in recent years, has thrown that once widely accepted idea into question and revolutionized the science of paleo-anthropology. It has also embroiled scientists in a bitter conflict with Native American groups who want the scientific study of early Americans halted. Who and what do Kennewick Man and others represent? NOVA is following the efforts of paleo-anthropologists work to decode the story in the bones of people who died 10,000 years ago.
Original broadcast date: 02/15/2000 Topic: anthropology/ancient, medicine/forensic "
http://www.clovisandbeyond.org/ (This site is no longer available. It now leads to a search engine :( . But I assume that a search of “Kennewick Man” will still lead to similar information.)
Quote:
From the first, Kennewick Man's bones tell an amazing story of his tough and perilous Paleo-American life. An ancient spear point was embedded deep in his hip. His left elbow was broken, and he had bone damage from the infection that set in. His chest was crushed by a massive blow, breaking off ribs on either side -- a fatal injury for most people. His skull was fractured by a right-handed person wielding a club.
But he survived all of this and lived to be between 45 and 55 years old, advanced old age for that time.
Quote:
The Kennewick Man's problem is that he is not politically correct. Initial scientific studies on the 9,400-year-old skeleton -- which was discovered beside the Columbia River near Kennewick, Wash., in 1996 -- found that he was not a Native American. What the findings suggested instead was that other races likely migrated to the Western Hemisphere over 30,000 years.
Heres another sourceless quote. But I copied it back when to post in a discussion I was having at the time.
Quote:
His subsequent work at Topper uncovered what looked to be industrial-scale toolmaking well below the level at which Clovis artifacts were found. With no organic material available to radiocarbon-date the level, the team had to use a different technique that stunned them with date estimates of 16,000 to 20,000 years ago.
(ok got some 'wiki' quotes)
en.wikipedia.org Topper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(archaeological_site)
Quote:
"Topper is an archaeological site located along the Savannah River in Allendale County, South Carolina in the United States. It is noted as the location of controversial artifacts believed by some archaeologists to indicate human habitation of the New World as far back as 50,000 years ago. Since the 1930s, the prevailing theory concerning the peopling of the New World is that the first human inhabitants were the Clovis people, who are thought to have appeared approximately 13,500 years ago. Artifacts of the Clovis people are found throughout most of the United States and as far south as Panama. The standard theory has been challenged in recent decades with the emergence of pre-Clovis sites such as Monte Verde and other possible pre-Clovis candidates such as Cactus Hill. To date, no consistent pre-Clovis cultural patterns have been established and the accuracy of these claims have been found controversial and unverified."
'Some People' are slow to accept new ideas. This Topper find was disputed, basically with the idea that:
Since there were no people in America that long ago. That the findings were wrong. (for various 'reasons'.)
{See no truth. Hear no truth. Speak no truth.}
Likewise. 'Some people' said: 'That Kennewick Man, is not Caucasian he's “Ainu”.
I searched
Well the site seems like it might have changed a bit. But I remember seeing photographs there that looked much like photos of people from the old American 'wild west'. You can still see at least some of these in a flash presentation in the 'room', “Faces of the Ainu”. Many of them look like 'white people'.
Quote:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/ainu/html/room01.html
3. Commentary on Origins "Ainu look completely different from Japanese. Some of the scholars consider Ainu as the "Lost Caucasians." And so [we are] organizing this kind of exhibition to raise the questions and hopefully we can give some kind of answers for the visitors."
Quote:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/ainu/html/room01.html
1. Commentary on Ainu Origins {bold emphasis mine}
"For a long time it's been thought that they were related to Caucasians because they looked very unlike the Mongoloid peoples. Today DNA testing has been done and despite some evidence that there is some sort of non-Mongoloid features in the Ainu, in another words perhaps some Caucasian or central Asian, there still is no definite answers to the questions of their origin. Some people think see the relationships to North American Indians, to Alaskan Eskimos, some even to Southeast Asians. So although they are definitely not related to Korean and Japan biological origins they look like some late Paleolithic peoples who became isolated at the end of the ice age and who occupied these islands and who later on were sort of swamped by invasions of Mongoloid related peoples. So they are really a special and distinct racial and biological group that has long, long roots in the area."
I think the Ainu ancestors were 'white people', from America. They are located on the Islands north of Japan. Which is just down the coast from this 'Beringia land bridge'. I presume the land bridge afforded travel in both directions. And yes the 'Kennewick Man' does bear some resemblance to them as well. Both probably peoples with varying levels of Mongol blood mixed in with Caucasian from the early Americans.
Searching “Pre Clovis”, and further links and search concepts should find you no end of controversy.
(European Peoples) Stone tool technology. Seen in America.
And certain mitochondrial DNA found that occurs only among Europeans and Native Americans.
Anyway. I think the first peoples in North America, were Caucasian. And that this truth isn't widely accepted both because.
It is new and different from old entrenched theories.
And Ironically it is considered 'Politically Incorrect', to think someone might have been here before the arrival of the 'American Indian'.
I personally am more comfortable with the idea that the 'white eye', returned to his old homeland. Rather than barged in, and displaced an indigenous peoples.
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