American Indians descend from Hunan, says expert

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Some people in Central China's Hunan Province may be the ancestors of American Indians, according to the dean of Hunan University Law School.

Du Gangjian said that Shaohao culture, named after the son of Huangdi, a legendary ancestor for Chinese people, is one source of American-Indian culture.

The discovery was made during his trip to study Indian tribes in the US, the dean said at a recent cultural seminar, Hunan-based news portal rednet.cn reported Tuesday.

According to Du, American Indians have many rituals, habits and working tools that are very similar to the ones that exist among Hunan people.

The finding also coincides with historical accounts in the traditional book Shanhaijing, which said that descendants of Shaohao travelled across the ocean before settling in America.

"The history textbooks in the world should be rewritten," he said.

According to most of the history textbooks, Columbus was the first person to discover the American continent.

But Du pointed out that before Columbus, famous ancient Chinese navigator Zheng He and the fleet he led had already been there and traveled around the globe.

The claim is also backed by Gavin Menzies, a British writer who wrote the book 1421: The Year China Discovered America also provides abundant archaeological facts and details to show Chinese were the first to settle in America.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/783561.shtml

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The Viking were first. Take that.

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The Viking were first. Take that.

I watched a documentary that stated that Solutrean's first landed on the American east coast 17,000 years ago.

This was also confirmed through DNA.

So Columbus didn't find sh!t.

From Wiki:

The Solutrean hypothesis is an alternative theory about the Settlement of the Americas, according to which peoples from Europe may have been among the earliest settlers of the American continent.^[1][2] The Solutrean hypothesis was first proposed in 1998. Its key proponents include Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution and Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter.^[3] The theories that currently are most widely accepted consider the American continent to have been first populated from Asia either via the Bering land bridge or by coastal travel.

According to the Solutrean hypothesis, people associated with the Solutrean culture migrated from Ice Age Europe to North America, bringing their methods of making stone tools with them and providing the basis for the later Clovis technology found throughout North America. The hypothesis rests upon proposed similarities between European Solutrean and Early American Clovis lithic technology. The presence of mtDNA Haplogroup X2A in Native American populations was also used to support the hypothesis.

Though the proponents cite recent archaeological findings in support of the theory, the hypothesis has generally not been well received. Many archaeologists have criticized the proposed similarities as too insignificant and just as likely to be due to chance as to shared origins. As one has said, "few if any archaeologists -- or, for that matter, geneticists, linguists, or physical anthropologists -- take seriously the idea of a Solutrean colonization of America."^[4] Two recent DNA studies dismiss the suggestion that Haplogroup X2A migrated to the Americas via an Atlantic route.

The thesis was popularized through a 2005 Discovery Channel docudrama.^[5]

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The oldest human fossil they found in the US, I believe, was somewhere along the Northern California coast, a Caucasian, very similar to a small population still living in Japan, if I remember right.

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The oldest human fossil they found in the US, I believe, was somewhere along the Northern California coast, a Caucasian, very similar to a small population still living in Japan, if I remember right.

There is a lot we don't know about where we came from. The Asian's owned America before and they'll own it again fairly soon.

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I like Hunan sauce