--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Rory didn't deal specifically with the issue of > > how the Tibetans would have gained seafaring > > experience when they don't have a seacoast, which > > is what I was asking. > > > > He did point out that there was a land bridge from > > Siberia at various points, but jeepers, that's a > > *gigantic* distance. > > Yes, it is. However, apparently scholars of the Athabascan languages > also agree that the Navajo and Apache migrated down into the US > Southwest from Alaska (Eskimo is also an Athabascan language, > apparently). That is also a pretty fair distance. One presumes they > came to Alaska from somewhere, and given the cultural and physical > similarities, Tibet would be a fair bet, it appears. I read on the net > that DNA tests are underway, but have as yet seen no results. > > Yes, I did not indicate that Tibet and China were closely connected, > except for mentioning Sino-Tibetan -- i.e., Chines-Tibetan, their > common language family.
Here is a good Nat'l Geo site with an interactive / timeline atlas depicting flows of human migration from Africa 60,000 years ago (from where all current humans derive). If you go through all the interative points, it gives a great foundation for understanding DNA markers and current knowledge. It also gives a good background and context for studying immigration into india. All areas of the world are populated by central-coastal african immigrants -- near ethiopia (hey maybe the rastafarians were on to something :) ) btw, the siberian-alaskan land bridge, 20,000 years ago, known as Beringia, was 640 miles wide. it facilitated the migration of what is now believed as primarily (then) chinese and siberians to migrate across the bridge, populating the americas all the way to the tip of south america. (dwarfing the distance from alaska to the NA sw -- migrations of that distance are a non-issue -- they occurred in substantial numbers) What is missing is any DNA validation of the other more recent migration theories -- over the past 1000-5000 years from china, tibet, celtic, etc. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
