@GrungeQueef@RealRaul Roughly 4000 years ago, there is documented evidence of "red haired & blonde giants," who taught the ancient people of China to spin wool and domesticate livestock.
@GrungeQueef@RealRaul People still argue about "Kennewick Man," today. If he was Caucasian it means white people have technically been in North America since 6385 B.C.
@s2208@GrungeQueef@RealRaul The Jury is still out. However, you can't help but wonder why an isolated tribe of Natives was being led by a "white skinned chieftess," long before any European people settled the area.
@billiam@MelGibsonafter4Beers@Arty24@GrungeQueef@RealRaul@s2208 I read extensively about this. Kennewick Man was conclusively found to be an ancestor of existing Native Americans. He is just so old that he is genetically and morphologically with little resemblance. I can't find anybody that disputes the DNA evidence. However handling of bones that predate established histories is an extremely political topic. Indians assert, and federal law sustains, that any remains found are by definition Native American, so for the most part any interest in non-native-american early new world inhabitants is hard or impossible to study because Indians have legal control of the bones and are not going to let you study them if you're going to contradict their oral histories. I had an interest in this topic for many years and my conclusion so far is that none of the european early-inhabitant claims have ended up being viable. there does seem to be evidence though that there were much earlier migrations to the new world earlier than current native americans, but none of their lineages have survived to the present day
do you know of any of /our guys/ (or adjacent) who cover this in-depth?
>The science community wished to conduct research on the skeleton, and asserted he was only distantly related to today's Native Americans and more closely resembled Polynesian or Southeast Asian peoples, a finding that would exempt the case from NAGPRA.
>Technology for analyzing ancient DNA had been improving since 1996, and in June 2015 scientists at the University of Copenhagen published a study of the Kennewick Man's sequenced genome, which found he belonged to a population ancestral to contemporary Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, who inhabit the region where his bones were found.[5] In September 2016, the US House and Senate passed legislation to return the remains to a coalition of Columbia Basin tribes. The Ancient One was buried according to Indian traditions on February 18, 2017, with 200 members of five Columbia Basin tribes in attendance, at an undisclosed location in the area.[6] Within the scientific community since the 1990s, arguments for a non-Indian ancient history of the Americas, including by ancient peoples from Europe, have been losing ground in the face of ancient DNA analysis.[7] Kennewick Man symbolically marks an "end of a [supposed] non-Indian ancient North America".[7] https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/Kennewick_Man?lang=en
If you do some digging I'm sure you can find more "dissident," perspectives on the topic. The more "official," anthropological sources are a heavily biased crapshoot.
@Arty24@s2208@GrungeQueef@RealRaul I'd recommend reading up on the drawn out legal shit show that was fought over the Kennewick Man. It was an explosive shitting of the bed that the establishment would completely scrub from memory if they had the means to do so.