Re: Australians discovered America

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• Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
  >
  http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/08/22/stifgnusa02003.html?99
  >
  > THE first people to inhabit America were Australian
  > Aborigines - not American Indians. New
  > archeological findings have uncovered evidence that
  > they crossed the Pacific Ocean by boat and settled
  > on the continent long before Siberians trekked
  > across the Bering Straits after the Ice Age.
  >
  > ================
  >
  > Hmm...
  

Interesting article.. although the skull found seemed to be similar to both aboriginal or negroid skulls, so she could have come from Australasia or Africa(?).

Homo sapiens has been around for at some 100 000 years (YMMV). That's an *awfully* long time for people to migrate. So in a way, it shouldn't be surprising, it should almost be expected.

Michael

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