Anthropologists from the University of Exeter in England claim that the first settlers in the Americas were not the ancestors of the Indians, but actually came from Australia
Anthropologists from the University of Exeter in southwest England reveal in a new study that the first settlers in the Americas actually came from Australia. The research is expected to "not be liked" by the descendants of the Native Americans whose ancestors came from Siberia. Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool, who was a partner in the research, claims that the skeletons found strengthen the research claim, and she is sure that after the DNA findings are received, the result will be unequivocal.
At the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Mexican Gonzalez said: "The American children were not the first to arrive there", adding that apparently the first arrived from Australia through Japan and Polynesia to the Pacific coast in America. The findings that constitute a factual basis for the evidence are skulls of long and narrow heads that were discovered in Mexico and California. One female skull that is better preserved than all of them is estimated to have lived 12,700 years ago, and so far the oldest skull discovered in America is estimated to have lived 9,000 years ago.
A serious bomb
"We sent her DNA for testing, this is going to be a serious bomb," Gonzalez concluded and refused to give further details, but said that there are well-known folktales of Spanish missionaries who arrived in an isolated community that contained people with elongated faces, who behaved culturally differently compared to the rest communities of that time, and was located in Baja, California. The community was wiped out due to diseases that the Spaniards brought with them.
The study in question is part of a set of studies funded by the 'British Council for Natural Environment Studies', which also deal with our continent of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The studies themselves focus on the diets, relationships and distribution of people in the first millennium in the face of extreme climate change.
So who really discovered America? Photo: Dafna Talmon
A historically charged topic
"The Discovery of America" is one of the most historically charged topics, and its problematicity begins with its name. The descendants of the Indians protest and claim that if someone invades your home, infects you with diseases, slaughters your family members and rapes your women, it is difficult to call this a "discovery".
In any case, although the West refers to the "discovery of America" from 1492, when Columbus kissed the continent he thought was India, America existed much earlier. The historical hypotheses talk about wandering hunters, the ancestors of the Indians, who left Asia 20,000-10,000 years ago, passed through Alaska and reached the American continent.
During their migrations to the south they settled in different places on the continent. Most of the early Indians made a living by hunting large wild animals and fishing. In later periods, towards the end of the last millennium AD, the practice of agriculture was added, especially corn and various types of bean crops. In any case, Columbus was not the first European to come to America. It is known about Vikings who arrived in America about 500 years earlier, but apparently the news about this did not reach the Europeans. Regardless, the BBC publishes about a first-of-its-kind archaeological site in England that reveals skeletons and artifacts
