Post by vela on Jan 26, 2005 13:00:58 GMT -5
The Imperative of Migration by Land and Sea by Modern Humans from East Africa to the Pacific and to the Americas.
by Graeme Kearsley.
www.world-mysteries.com/gw_kearsley.htm#Migration
www.world-mysteries.com/gw_kearsley.htm#Migration
by Graeme Kearsley.
www.world-mysteries.com/gw_kearsley.htm#Migration
Introduction
In the first contacts made between the Spanish Conquistadors with the ancient Mesoamericans and South American Amerindians in the 16th., century, A.D. it was immediately clear that the invaders and their contemporary chroniclers believed that the evidence they saw first hand of the cultural achievements that confronted them had a close relation to those known in the Old World. This view pervaded in many of the later reports into the early 20th., century and evident also in the faltering first anthropological and archaeological researches of the Victorian era that were irregularly undertaken until they became more systematised.
In the first part of the 20th., century, and perhaps a little earlier, some of the American researchers such as David Garrison Brinton began to insist that the American cultures on both North and South continents were indigenous and developed independently with little or no contact with the Old World. This view began to gain strength and popularity and became, in the second half of the 20th., century, the majority line in the educational establishments of the Western world. This was, and is so in the USA in particular whose educationalists have fiercely propounded their views and have in no way spared their invective or contempt for those who supported primary or even secondary stimulus of diffusion from Asia of Europe. Diffusionism from the Old World was relegated to the sidelines, although still maintained by some notable scholars, and Isolationism became the norm.
In the first contacts made between the Spanish Conquistadors with the ancient Mesoamericans and South American Amerindians in the 16th., century, A.D. it was immediately clear that the invaders and their contemporary chroniclers believed that the evidence they saw first hand of the cultural achievements that confronted them had a close relation to those known in the Old World. This view pervaded in many of the later reports into the early 20th., century and evident also in the faltering first anthropological and archaeological researches of the Victorian era that were irregularly undertaken until they became more systematised.
In the first part of the 20th., century, and perhaps a little earlier, some of the American researchers such as David Garrison Brinton began to insist that the American cultures on both North and South continents were indigenous and developed independently with little or no contact with the Old World. This view began to gain strength and popularity and became, in the second half of the 20th., century, the majority line in the educational establishments of the Western world. This was, and is so in the USA in particular whose educationalists have fiercely propounded their views and have in no way spared their invective or contempt for those who supported primary or even secondary stimulus of diffusion from Asia of Europe. Diffusionism from the Old World was relegated to the sidelines, although still maintained by some notable scholars, and Isolationism became the norm.
www.world-mysteries.com/gw_kearsley.htm#Migration