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Newest book from Panther’s Lodge Publishers and DNA Consultants

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The Countercurrents of Prehistory:
What Rare Genes Can Say about Early Human Migration

By Donald N. Yates

Illustrations by Richard L. Thornton, Architect
With a Preface by Jane Mellin
45.00 paperback 65.00 hardbound

Published June 14, 2025

Available wherever books are sold and at all Amazon sites worldwide

The Austronesian contribution to world genetics

From p. 100 of The Countercurrents of Prehistory.

The survival and transformation of the Old Woman type: Mata Ortiz Casas Grandes Revival effigy pot, 1960s, 6 ¾” tall and  6 ¾” long and 6 ¾” wide, signed by Manuel Olivas. The designs show that the language of the Goddess continued to be understood in the late 20th century in North Mexico. Master potter Manuel Olivas (1940-2007) worked in tandem with his daughter, Blanca (see “The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz” by Susan Lowell, p. 120). This goddess covers her breasts with her hands and emphasizes them. Witness the tri-line signature on the figure’s right knee, together with the drops of nourishment coming from it.  Three strokes at an angle can be found on a multitude of pottery and metal sculptures that served as votive offerings to the Goddess, from North Mexico to South America. Notice also the curving tendril or germinative symbol. An artifact similar to this reproduction is in the collection of the Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Ariz.; its chin tattoo consists of three strokes.[1] Manuel Olivas preceded Juan Quezada, who is often credited with reviving Casas Grandes pottery. The little village of Mata Ortiz outside the ruins now has 400 families making pottery. It is said Olivas met with Charles De Peso at the time of the great Paquimé dig 1959-1960s. Traditionally, the collectors from which this example came dated it to 1960s. Note the chin tattoo, or beard, a mark of Austronesians. Donald and Teresa Yates Collection.

[1] See also Phil Stover, “The Eye of God [should be Goddess!]: Tranquility and Tradition . . . Mata Ortiz Pottery in Harmony with the Ancients,” Journal of the Southwest 54/1 (2006) pp. 159-63.

SUMMARY: Investigation of DNA Consultants’ Rare Genes from History and autosomal haplotype tests suggests Southern China and Southeast Asia were the home of an archaic matriarchal, maritime high culture that diffused across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans with Austronesian culture and the drowning of the continent of Sundaland. Often archeologically invisible, the genetic origins and belief and value systems of this “mother culture” are critical to understanding many prehistoric migrations, including the peopling of the Americas.

CONTENTS

Foreword xiii
Introduction 1
1 Face That Launched a Thousand Ships 18
2 Priestesses and Warriors 44
3 To See a World in a Grain of Sand 61
4 Bottle Woman 83
5 Atala 110
6 Kon-Tiki 127
7 Reading the Ht Leaves 146
8 Amazons and Cannibals 172
9 Children of the Sun 216
10 Rare Heritage 216
Epilogue 243
Appendix A. Private Alleles 248
Appendix B CoDIS Markers 249
Appendix C American Indian Populations in atDNA 252
Apppendix D Cherokee Origin Narrative 254
References 263
Index 286

 

ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS and FIGURES

Key to Rare Genes from History xvi
1. Minoan stirrup-handled pot 16
2. Sundaland Gene in Southeast Asia 21
3. Helen Gene 25
4. Sundaland 31
5. Odin Gene 32
6. Jean-François Champollion 37
7. Sea Peoples 37
8. Akhenaten Gene 43
9. Old Europe 45
10. Top population matches for Goddess Gene 46
11. Top quartile Goddess Gene distribution 46
12. Gimbutas 47
13. Yamnaya man 49
14. Official seal of Oaxaca 52
15. Goddess Gene in Oaxaca 53
16. Pre-Columbian goddess vessels in Oaxaca 54
17. More goddess vessels in Oaxaca 54
18. Guelaguetza parade 54
19. Europa Gene 55
20. Circassian Gene 56
21. Invasions of Scythians and others 57
22. Top Scythian Gene populations 58
23. Peoples of the Steppes Gene 59
24. Donald and Teresa Yates with Hopi 62
25. Hualapai matches 1-50 63
26. Rare genes in Hopi 65
27. Nampeyo 67
28. Undecorated Casas Grandes jar 68
29. Zella Cheda pot 68
30. Dextra Quotskuyva 76
31. Polychrome bowl by Leah Garcia Nampeyo 77
32. Elva Nampeyo bowl 78
33. Sikyatki Revival bowl 78
34. Migration design seed pot by Elton Nampeyo 79
35. Lost wooden alosekas 81
36. Bird goddess from Ukraine 82
37. Francesca Bortolaso 85
38. Ramiro Dalcir 85
39. Durga 89
40. Pitcairn Inscription 94
41. Polynesian priest 95
42. Hunchback effigy bottle from Arkansas 96
43. Old Woman and Masked Goddess 98
44. Nashville child’s grave goddess figure 99
45. Stiff nudes Kentucky and Bulgaria 99
46. Casas Grandes goddess 100
47. Snake Woman 104
48. Chalchihuitlicue 106
49. Aztlan Gene 108
50. Ancient One Gene 109
51. First Peoples Gene 109
52. Atala 112
53. Saharan migrations 113
54. Spiral petroglyph 114
55. Great Goddess with fancy skirt 115
56. AT inscription 116
57. Tau-shaped windows overlooking kiva 118
58. Atia 123
59. Emergence petroglyphs Hawaii and Kentucky 124
60. Amerind Gene 126
61. Cochise Gene 126
62. Thor Heyerdahl 129
63. Heide Goettner-Abendroth 130
64. Stephen Oppenheimer 130
65. Sundaland Gene’s top matches 140
66. Top metapopulations showing Sundaland Gene 142
67. Top megapopulations exhibiting Sundaland Gene 143
68. Selective populations with genetic drift 144
69. World genes 145
70. Allele D5=9 and Kuroshio Curren 148
71. Yellow Emperor Gene 149
72. To 50 populations Yellow Emperor Gene 151
73. Rare alleles in Oaxaca 154
74. Buddhist ceremony 157
75. Mitla fretwork 159
76. Kailashanatha Temple 159
77. Oaxaqueña Patricia Hernandez 161
78. Indian businesswoman 162
79. Top vWA=21 matches 163
80. Allele vWA=21 map 164
81. Oconostota 165
82. Cherokee private allele TPOX=6 166
83. Sir Francis Drake 168
84. Another Cherokee private allele, D18=13.2 170
85. Creek private allele D18=23 170
86. Atabey 182
87. Rafinesque 183
88. Prado had the pilot take him on a fly-over 187
89. Round Town 195
90. Virginia native woman 197
91. Bill Bass and Euchee great-grandmother 198
92. Holly McDaniel and Maori woman 198
93. Holly McDaniel’s top 30 world matches 200
94. Ġigantija 202
95. Fish-god seals 210
96. Great Ziggurat of Ur 213
97. Pirámide Mayor at Caral 214
98. Latin and Libyan bilingual inscription 218
99. Seven memorials in Thullium 219
100. “Square letter” inscription in Java 224
101. Sukah Temple 225
102. Davenport Stele 227
103. Asian elephant at Chaco Canyon 228
104. Image in a sea shell and Bottle Woman 230
105. Iberian sun-god temple in North Georgia 233
106. Saturday Evening Post, January 13, 1827 235
107. Obverse of Cincinnati Tablet 237
108. Adena designs 238
109. Swift Creek patterns 239
110. Adena paddle cutout 240
111. Sam Smith 244
112. Oceanic double canoe 247
113. Indian Chieftain masthead 254

Copyright © 2025 Donald N. Yates

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