Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:55 am
Nazis in Space wrote:Btw, there is some evidence suggesting that modern indians - the ones wandering in over the bering strait, and being most closely related to modern north- and central asian folks - were not the first to colonise the continent, being preceded by a seaborne colonisation of people that'd resemble modern aboriginies or melanesians (Traveling along the coastline from asia to north america), who are in turn most closely related to modern africans.
Basically, the first owners of America may well have been darkies.
That wasn't my understanding of the seaborne hypothesis. I thought its proponents said that the first people did come from East Asia, but not overland but rather along the coast of Beringia and Alaska and the West Coast. Not that they came across the Pacific.