rafonda
January 6th, 2004, 01:15 PM
Research, published after Billy Roper wrote Paleo-American Ethnic Diversity in 1999, tends to corroborate aspects of his view. I just ran across this recently, so it may be news to the rest of you as well:
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States, August 14, 2001 v98 i17 p10017.
Title: Old World sources of the first New World human inhabitants: A
comparative craniofacial view.
Author: C. Loring Brace, A. Russell Nelson, Noriko Seguchi, Hiroaki Oe,
Leslie Sering, Pan Qifeng, Li Yongyi and Dashtseveg Tumen
Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 2001 National Academy of Sciences
Human craniofacial data were used to assess the similarities and differences
between recent and prehistoric Old World samples, and between these samples
and a similar representation of samples from the New World. The data were
analyzed by the neighbor-joining clustering procedure, assisted by
bootstrapping and by canonical discriminant analysis score plots. The first
entrants to the Western Hemisphere of maybe 15,000 years ago gave rise to
the continuing native inhabitants south of the U.S.-Canadian border. These show
no close association with any known mainland Asian population. Instead they
show ties to the Ainu of Hokkaido and their Jomon predecessors in prehistoric
Japan and to the Polynesians of remote Oceania. All of these also have ties to the Pleistocene and recent inhabitants of Europe and may represent an extension from a Late Pleistocene continuum of people across the northern fringe of the Old World. With roots in both the northwest and the northeast, these people can be described as Eurasian. The route of entry to the New World was at the northwestern edge. In contrast, the Inuit (Eskimo), the Aleut, and the Na-Dene speakers who had penetrated as far as the American Southwest within the last 1,000 years show more similarities to the mainland populations of East Asia. Although both the earlier and later arrivals in the New World show a mixture of traits characteristic of the northern edge of Old World occupation and
the Chinese core of mainland Asia, the proportion of the latter is greater for
the more recent entrants.
This is also somewhat relevant to Robert's recent post "Well, this just changes everything."
RAF
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States, August 14, 2001 v98 i17 p10017.
Title: Old World sources of the first New World human inhabitants: A
comparative craniofacial view.
Author: C. Loring Brace, A. Russell Nelson, Noriko Seguchi, Hiroaki Oe,
Leslie Sering, Pan Qifeng, Li Yongyi and Dashtseveg Tumen
Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 2001 National Academy of Sciences
Human craniofacial data were used to assess the similarities and differences
between recent and prehistoric Old World samples, and between these samples
and a similar representation of samples from the New World. The data were
analyzed by the neighbor-joining clustering procedure, assisted by
bootstrapping and by canonical discriminant analysis score plots. The first
entrants to the Western Hemisphere of maybe 15,000 years ago gave rise to
the continuing native inhabitants south of the U.S.-Canadian border. These show
no close association with any known mainland Asian population. Instead they
show ties to the Ainu of Hokkaido and their Jomon predecessors in prehistoric
Japan and to the Polynesians of remote Oceania. All of these also have ties to the Pleistocene and recent inhabitants of Europe and may represent an extension from a Late Pleistocene continuum of people across the northern fringe of the Old World. With roots in both the northwest and the northeast, these people can be described as Eurasian. The route of entry to the New World was at the northwestern edge. In contrast, the Inuit (Eskimo), the Aleut, and the Na-Dene speakers who had penetrated as far as the American Southwest within the last 1,000 years show more similarities to the mainland populations of East Asia. Although both the earlier and later arrivals in the New World show a mixture of traits characteristic of the northern edge of Old World occupation and
the Chinese core of mainland Asia, the proportion of the latter is greater for
the more recent entrants.
This is also somewhat relevant to Robert's recent post "Well, this just changes everything."
RAF