Evidence suggests Anzick Child is 25,000-year-old Maya ancestor
Posted On: Jul 22nd, 2015 at 13:04
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One of my avid interests and where much of my personal work has been focused over the years – the populating of the Americas – has more controversy that just about any subject in archaeology.
I can assure you that believing the idea that is taught in schools – that Native Americans first crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia at the end of the last ice age, some 14,000 +/- years ago – is a very questionable thing to do. While there probably were migrations from Siberia, there is ample evidence that there were other, earlier migrations, perhaps as far afield as Polynesia into South America, and even, controversially, European visitors who may have skipped the land edges by passing Iceland and Greenland during the ice age. While the latter idea brings hoards of laughter from many, the former is a theory that I believe will produce evidence in the near future. Again I argue that the Americas were populated first from the South, some 20,000 – 25,000 years ago (as a wild guess – it may have been much earlier), and I believe evidence for this idea is not too far away.
In this article the Anzick Boy – mentioned recently in a previous post and who is the earliest known Native American ever found – is more controversial than first appears. While his maternal DNA suggests Siberian ancestry which fits the current model of migration, the paternal DNA suggests he is a Maya ancestor dating to more than 25,000 years.
Isn’t it funny how the latter is generally kept out of the story?
Ironically, this idea – that the Maya were descendants of the original Native Americans who landed in the South some 25,000 years ago – is a central theme in my book. It may be a work of fiction, but one needs to read between the lines!
Note: This article has four short pages and the important information is on the last page
