--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > >> Uh, no, I was thinking that the Celts don't seem
> > > to, you know, be here any longer.
> > 
> > Seems likely there were only small settlements of Celts here 
> > (apparently primarily in New England, judging from the Ogham 
> > inscriptions and megaliths here), and (from the linguistic 
evidence) 
> > they probably intermarried with the American Indians along the 
east 
> > coast. I have also seen some pretty densely argued scholarly 
papers
> > on the internet ascribing Tibetan antecedents to some of the 
western 
> > Indian tribes, providing ample linguistic and cultural evidence 
to 
> > prove their case.
> 
> Has anybody done any DNA studies?  Something sticks
> in my mind having to do with DNA and Native Americans,
> but I can't remember what.
> 

Mitochondria studies would be VERY interesting...

> Wait.  Tibetans??  How would they have acquired the
> necessary sailing skills?  Did they have a 
> tradition of exploration?  Would they have been
> monkish types, or merchant types?


I was thinking there's plenty of evidence of Mongolian precursors, 
but not of relatively modern Tibetans...




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