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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Jacy[/i] [br]Research challenges American origins A 'lost tribe' that reached America from Australia may have been the first Native Americans, according to research by Dr Silvia Gonzales (pictured opposite). If proved by DNA evidence, the research, presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival, will shatter long-established beliefs about the southerly migration of people believed to have entered America across the Bering Strait. Dr Gonzales, based in JMU's School of Biological and Earth Sciences, analysed skeletons from the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico. She found that they had long and narrow heads that are quite different from the short, broad skulls of today's Native Amercians. These narrow-skulled people have more in common with southern Asians, Aboriginal Australians and people of the Pacific Rim. The bones, stored at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, have been carbon-dated. One well-preserved skull of a long-headed female, who has been dubbed Penon Woman, was found to be 12,700 years old, placing it several thousand years before the arrival of people from the North. "We think there were several migration waves into the Americas at different times by different human groups," says Dr Gonzales. "The time, route and point of origin of the first colonisation of the Americas remains a most contentious topic in human evolution." A team of Mexican and British scientists, backed by the Natural Environment Research Council, have attempted to extract DNA from the bones. These results are currently being checked, though Dr Gonzales has indicated that they are consistent with an Australian origin. Dr Gonzales believes that the 'lost tribe' arrived by boat from Australia via Japan and Polynesia before settling along the Pacific coast of America. A population of the long-headed individuals - known as the Pericues - appears to have survived until the 18th century when they died out because of disease. http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/JMUWorld/default_39506.asp Just thought it might interest you [:I] Jacy [{I}] [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.