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Euchee Indians and others in the Americas came from Polynesians and Sea Peoples. And Polynesians and Sea Peoples came from Austronesians, and Austronesians came from the Yue tribes in China.
Europe was settled relatively late. Neanderthals, after blocking humans’ exit from Africa through the lands of West Asia and Arabia, were rapidly subjugated and became extinct. Their genes account for about 3% of Europeans’ (and Americans’) genomic material today.
We are placing here a passage about the skirmish between the defenders of Marija Gimbutas and the long attempt to discredit her Kurgan Thesis, taken from the introduction to our forthcoming book, The Countercurrents of Prehistory, which has a chapter relevant to her ideas in “Priestesses and Warriors.” The Introductiion begins with a quotation.
Many people are getting their DNA test back and are surprised to discover they have Jewish ancestry. DNA doesn’t lie, but how did this happen?
When I was last in Cherokee and visited the Qualla Arts shop I bought a pendant of carved agate in the shape of a paddle and on it an unfamiliar design. By unfamiliar I mean I had never seen anything like it among Cherokee artisans.
Excerpted from Donald Yates’s forthcoming book The Countercurrents of Prehistory: What Rare Genes Have to Tell Us about Early Human Migrations, Chapter 8, “Amazons and Cannibals”
Carriers of the Odin Gene have always been apparently cool dudes or level-headed chicks. A variant on the forensic locus THO1 can reveal how you react to sudden or chronic stress. One value gives you the Odin Gene, another the Sundaland Gene.
Every family has an origin story. As in, Our family came from Italy and immigrated to New York, or Our family came from France, and immigrated to Argentina, or Our family is from this village in the north of Spain and has always been from this village in the north of Spain
Named for the 12,000-year-old skeleton of a baby boy found in 1968 on a Montana ranch, the distribution of the Ancient One Gene reflects the earliest migrations of North Asiatic peoples into the Americas.
Many customers are starting to get their results for the BASIC HAPLOTYPE TEST, as well as their free copy of UNLOCKING THE PAST, by Martin Jones.
