A nice article from the Seattle Weekly which I just happened across, detailing the debate over remains known as the “Kennewick Man” which supposedly exhibit “caucasoid” characteristics from over 9,000 years ago. Although they’re saying that he was probably more related to the Ainu aborigines of Japan, than to Europeans.
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about this sort of thing, with different waves of people entering the Americas throughout history, rather than just the standard version you heard in school where (1) people came across the Bering Straits and moved south, and then (2) Columbus magically found the continents and brought white people over. It’s much more complicated and interesting than that, with evidence of Chinese, West African, Viking, Phoenician and other colonies and camps all around North and South America, throughout history. This article even suggests that people may have been in the Americas as long ago as 40,000 years, before the last ice age. That’s cool.
I also like how at one point this article says something to the effect that science in a genre of poetry.
Anybody know any good books about the sort of things I’m talking about here, with alternative looks at history and peoples in the Americas? I’ll look around.
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