Yes, according to Bill Tiffee, whose article on Solutreans in America will appear in volume 29 of the series Epigraphic Society Occasional Papers. Titled “Were Ancient Egyptians the Solutreans Who First Settled America?” the new study, he says, “looks at the possibility that the Solutreans who first settled America were from Egypt, and that the genetic marker X is found in the highest concentrations among the Druze (who migrated from Egypt 1,000 years ago)and the descendants of the Moundbuilder Native groups including the Sioux and Algonquin and possibly the Cherokee.”
We have previously suggested that the Cherokee incorporate both Greek and Egyptian DNA. Chapter 3 of Donald Yates’ new book Old World Roots of the Cherokee is devoted to the DNA story of the so-called “anomalous” Cherokee lines, including haplogroups T and X.
Several prominent scholars have argued that Europeans known to archeologists as the Solutreans of France and Spain around 18,000 years ago were the first to settle the Americas. Tiffee examines the similarities between Solutrean and Clovis or Paleo-Indian stone technology and reconstructs the Solutrean culture in Egypt beginning 24,000 years ago (p. 119). He links ancient Egyptians with genetic marker E-M78, mitochondrial haplogroup X, Tula and the Spiro Complex mounds in Oklahoma, among other North American sites. He also discusses the Great Flood of about 10,000 years ago, the legends surrounding Osiris and the rise of agriculture in southern Turkey (Gobekli Tepe).
“Perhaps,” he concludes, “Egyptologists need to rethink their paradigms of ancient Egypt. And perhaps modern Native American descendants of the Moundbuilders, the Algonquin groups, Sioux, Cherokee, Chickasaw (and other Native cultures closely related to mound-building) need to reconsider where their most ancient ancestors came from (129).”
In DNA Consultants’ Cherokee DNA study, “Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in the Cherokee,” as well as numerous blog posts since 2009, it was reported that haplogroups U, T, K, J, N, X and L are found in Cherokee descendants in frequencies mirroring those of Egypt.
Olivia
16 June, 2022 at 6:55 pm
I recently did 23andme and was surprised to not find any Native American even though we have traditionally understood a couple members of our family tree as being Native American. But on the other hand I apparently have a Egyptian DNA. This seems unlikely because virtually all of my ancestors for the last six or seven generations are English, Irish, French or Scottish, descended from early American settlers. I’m working on ancestry.com to piece together that side of things and was hoping getting my DNA done would help solve a couple more puzzles I found. But now maybe I’m more confused than ever!
Donald Yates
17 June, 2022 at 11:39 am
Many people with Southeastern American Indian admixture get a high Egyptian match (my wife has it as No. 1). It appears the name of the Chattahoochee River was originally Ancient Egyptian Noble, White, Beautiful River. The Egyptians called the Sea Peoples TMH, Libyans, White and America was originally The White Land to the ancient pre-Celtic Celts, Hindus and Egyptians. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Egyptians, Moroccans and other Arabs came back to the Southeast. The story is partially pieced together in Cherokee DNA Studies II, continuing to evolve.
Jen
12 November, 2022 at 3:04 pm
Similar thing here. I am a direct decendant of survivors of the Grand Deportation and the LeBlancs that regrouped in Louisiana and they were in the Membertou bloodlines, so I’m not surprised it found french German and Spanish, news to me cool, but no native from Mikmaq. Was there a cheating grandma somewhere? Idk, but it’s aweful weird there is Coptic Egyptian and west African and my great grandpa was brown skin black hair, and g.grandma was from the survivors who never left and stayed on the rezz. Yeah. More questions than answers.