Quote Originally Posted by Slartibardfast
Also I don't think your giving enough credit to the human endeavor of sea exploration and colonisation. The original inhabitants of South America where of Australoid stock with most being killed and eaten by the Mongoloid Amerindians coming down from the north.
...Eaten? Figuratively, right?

Quote Originally Posted by KARTLOS
please post links to the austroloid colinisation of america, it sounds interesting
There is a number of theories concerning the American colonyzation of South America, amongst them:

Inmigration through Beringia, an land bridge that united alaska with siberia throug a period comprising roughly from 50000 BC and ending 8000 years ago. Through that period, succesive waves of peoples colonyzed the North and South Americas. The mongoloid peoples that came through that route comprises the 90% of the genetic material of the current american indians (missing source BTW).

A second theory is the Oceanic one, that proposed a movement of polinesic peoples by ships and rafts that arrived in the Californian and Mexican coast, following marine currents. According to Rivet, that migration occurred some 4000 years ago, and it`s totally confirmed by common weapons, houses and general instruments between both human groups, and also by language similarities.

The third theory (Mendez Correa) is one about australian migration through the antartic coast. According to that theory, some 6000 years ago the climatic conditions were such, that made possible the appearance of some islands on the southern seas, which enhanced gratly the communication between australia and the south cone of South America. This theory is confirmed by common ethnic, language and cultural parameters between both human groups (Lack of knowledge of hammocks and ceramics, hive-like huts, similar builded barges and boats, etc.)

A pretty bizarre one was from an argentinian paleontologist (Florentino Ameghino), that sayed that the actual cradle of manking was located in South America (yup, you guessed right, in his country...), not in Africa.

The fact is that the guy was caught falsing some bones (he tried to make pass a femur of a feline and parts of a relatively modern man`s skull as archeologycal evidence of an extraordinarily old hominid - the alledged broken link of Darwin -. It actually was hilarious when I heard that in school!!!

Anyway, and excellent page is this one:

LINK

But, alas, it`s in spanish.

And the good old wikipedia:

Migration theories
More Migration Theories
Monte Verde
Pre-Siberian Aboriginies

Cheers to all!

PS: Eaten?