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>Hubbe and colleagues analyzed four of the oldest human skulls found in North America, collected from 2008 to 2015 from underwater caves and sinkholes in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, just a few miles from popular tourist sites such as the Mayan ruins of Tulum.>The team's analysis of the skulls, which date from about 8,500 to 13,500 years old, adds new complexity to the long-running First Americans debate.>In fact, comparing the skulls with modern populations, the research team found that one most closely resembled people living in the North American Arctic, while another was most similar to modern Europeans. The other two skulls each had a different mix of features typical of Asian, Native American, South American or Arctic populations.???
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@augustus @Moon europe was wave after wave after wave of new settlers, so not surprising the same happens elsewhere, just slower rates according to distance from point of origin (polynesia being the outlier, because how even
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@Moon it's still interesting just how different all the specimens are. its like a cursed land that no single group can ever hold in its entirety. peoples will die trying to tame the land
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@augustus native americans won't let dna test be done on the bones because they're scared shitless that it won't have any genetic connection to current indigenous peoples (they are right to be scared)
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@augustus it's not european, it's like proto-siberian or something (I am trying to remember the name), I read a thing about it. They're so old they predate modern ethnic groups. They're similar to polynesian bones too.
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@Moon the European skull tho
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@augustus the current native americans slaughtered the original native americans and took their land
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@shmibs @augustus I give cranks a pass when they embarrass experts as bad as thor heyerdhal did
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@shmibs @augustus yeah polynesia is interesting for numerous reasons. a guy in the 50s thought they came from the americas and everybody told him he was full of shit (he was) because it wasn't possible (then he did it)