Europeans Were 1st Americans? BBC 2 Special

Originally posted by Paul These girls show no native American traits whatsoever, they appear to be 100% European,

Originally posted by Hellios Originally posted by Paul These girls show no native American traits whatsoever, they appear to be 100% European,       Pinguin, right girl looks like the half Eritrian half Swedish girl below.

Edited by Paul - 25-Feb-2007 at 21:40

Originally posted by pinguin Common Hellios:   When Chileans go to live abroad suffer discrimination because they are "indians". In Sweden they call Latinos the "Little Black heads", because almost all of us have dark hair!!

"In the DNA profile of the Ichigua Native American tribe he identified a . Instead it dated to Solutrean times. Wallace's genetic timelines show the Ice Age prompted a number of migrations from Europe to America. It looks highly likely that the Solutreans were one".(Taken from the given article)

From what I understand, there are 4 main mtDNA Haplogroups in the Americas. All of which are traced from East Asia. Then there's a fifth one, Halpogroup X, found in Europe and so far not in any Eurasian populations. It's also found in higher numbers in the North East North America among the Algonquian people.

"Halpogroup X, found in Europe and so far not in any Eurasian populations. It's also found in higher numbers in the North East North America among the Algonquian people. '

Which period of Europe? Found in middle aged and today Europe? Or  only in the skeleton of Europe in the ice age. but not the middle age or today European. If the former, the theory of ice age columbus  can not be proved, since might be Vikings or other unknown European explorers gave to them, If the latter, then the theory can be proved

Which period? The date for the X crossing to the Americas is 30,000-15000 bc. Thats just the people crossing, how long have they been in Europe? I'm not sure. But with the DNA that'd match the Solutrean populations and their flint knapping technique being found in the Americas, you can put two and two together. More proof can be shown in that the genetics are stronger towards North Eastern Atlantic and then seem to mellow out when they go west and south.

But the DNA is in higher numbers towards the North East, and lower numbers to the south as populations are father from the atlantic. They wouldn't be in a boat constantly either with the ice right by them and on top of that, the ice sheet acts as a perfect guide from Southern France where the Solutreans were to the North Eastern part of the US during the ice age. They pretty much lived off the sea life of that area.

What do Vikings have to do with the Ice Age?

Edited by SearchAndDestroy - 14-Mar-2007 at 22:38

This is a pretty new theory that is just starting to get acceptence and a look at. Most people just say it's impossible because everyone is stuck with the age old idea of the bering straight. The best they can do is look at the current populations. We know the X mtDNA is ancient and was found in the Solutrean peoples. If they migrated out of Europe before all the migrations, then they would have genetic changes. So the populations in the Americas have this DNA, plus DNA from the Asian peoples that came in later, which make up the majority of Natives by far. The DNA matches the Solutreans of the area without any latter outside influences, which means they didn't migrate through people, and didn't mix with the Europeans that came to the area later. To do so, I'd guess they'd have to move Westward which the theory says.