Has anyone ever figured out exactly where Native Americans came from before arriving in the New World?

Question

I read a newspaper article some years ago indicating that people in a certain area of the former Soviet Union had a 75 percent correlation of genetic markers with full-blood Native Americans, hence were a good candidate for close kinship to so-called "American Indians", and the article said there was another group of a former U.S.S.R. population that, according to then-incomplete genomic studies, might be even more closely related to Native Americans.

Answer 1

Actually, it depends upon who you ask. Most Native Americans will say that they were created here and have lived here since time immemorial. But there have been many studies related to this subject.

There is evidence that what we call "Native Americans" could have actually had a genetic pool that encircled the globe. There is evidence that not only were their asiatics that crossed the Bering, but that there are genetic tracers for South Pacific peoples, Celtics, Phoenicans, Ancient Egyptions, Norse, Chinese, and African decents.

So its really hard to say where they came from, because tribes are genetically different based upon geographical features. Really it is all about what you think it may be...because no one really knows!

Answer 2

Some 10 to 20 thousand years ago Earth was in an ice age with a large fraction of the Earth's water tied up in glaciers and polar ice caps. Thus the ocean levels were lower than they are now. A "land bridge" connected Alaska to Russia. (This "bridge) is now under water.)

Nomadic hunters in what is now Russia probably followed caribou herds and other prey over that land bridge into North America. Some returned, others didn't, and those who stayed eventually migrated farther south, eventually populated both North and South America. Of course, as the ice age ended and the ice caps and glaciers melted, ocean levels rose and flooded the land bridge, which put an end to the movements back and forth.

Answer 3

I thought it was generally accepted that native indians crossed an ice bridge from Asia to Alaska and spread down the coast to the rest of the Americas. Not only is this theory supported by genetic evidence amongst the indigenous peopless of Norther Russia, Aleutians and Northern Japan - but alos features in much of the NA Indian mythology - notably the Haida and Coast Salish peoples

Answer 4

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Answer 5

There are many THEORIES but no one will ever know for sure. The land bridge is very popular. I always liked THOR HEYERDAHL's idea that the Mayan and Inca pyramid builders may have come from Egypt. He actually built a boat using pyramid era technology and sailed across the Atlantic.

Answer 6

Some years ago the watchtower people ran a series of articles in their Awake magazines that dealt with the migrations of man.
I read them then, but no longer have the materials. You might check into their website and look around.

Answer 7

Well, if you believe the Mormons, all Native Americans are children of Israel, turned red in damnation by God for their betrayal of other Israelite tribes. I, of course, don't believe that. I think they look like Asians and it makes sense to me that they could have crossed the same land bridge at the Bering straight.

Answer 8

Lately investigators have been saying that the Native Americans could have had Asian ancestors. The oldest evidence of human beings has been found in Africa so maybe that is the origin place of humanity.

Answer 9

Humans EVOLVED in Africa and crossed Asia and Siberia, then crossed the Bering Strait whilst it was still land and reached America. That's the main theory anyway.

Answer 10

Doesn't anybody use their gray matter anymore? Continental shift anyone? The indians referred to the peoples that inhabited the USA before them as the "ancient ones". Sorry, no DNA available.