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11/28/2007: ""Native Americans" were neither native nor American"

One of the most comprehensive analyses of genetic variation ever undertaken supports the theory that the ancestors of modern native peoples throughout the Americas came from a single source in East Asia across a northwest land bridge some 12,000 years ago. One particular discovery is of a 'unique genetic variant widespread in natives across both continents . suggesting that the first humans in the Americas came in a single migration or multiple waves from a single source, not in waves of migrations from different sources. The variant, which is not part of a gene and has no biological function, has not been found in genetic studies of people anywhere else except eastern Siberia. The researchers say the variant likely occurred shortly prior to migration to the Americas, or immediately afterwards.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uomh-gss112607.php

A few words in one of the planet's most obscure languages support the theory that Native Americans left Asia in several separate migrations, a linguist said in an article to be released Monday.

Merritt Ruhlen of Stanford University has found compelling similarities between Ket, a language spoken by just 500 people in remote Siberia, and Na-Dene, a family of Native American languages.

http://www.lds-mormon.com/science_languages_reut.shtml#3

[ People today are so stupid they require specific scientific studies to tell them the obvious. They held onto the politically correct "multiple migrations" theory for as long as they could, but then failed. The truth is that many groups came to America, and Europeans were first. ]

The divide was more than just distance; it crossed five thousand years as well. No matter the similarities between the two cultures, the possibility of a parallel technology developing by chance would have to be considered. More evidence emerged from an archaeological dig in Cactus Hill, Virginia. A bifaced flint point found there was dated to 16kya, far older than Clovis. Even more startling was its style. To flintknapper Bruce Bradley's eye, the Cactus Hill flint was a technological midpoint between the French Solutrean style and the Clovis points dating five millennia later. It seemed there is no great divide in time. The Solutrean flint methods evolved into Clovis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/columbus.shtml