Are Native Americans the oldest culutre that's still alive today?

Question

I mean Greeks, Romans, Egyptians have all disappeared...
There don't have any 'pure' descendants.
Today's Native Americans are the same Native Americans that lived 2000 years ago. Some have intermarried but many are pure Indigenous. Do you get my point?

DUDE, Modern Greeks and Egyptians are not direct descendants of ancient Greeks and Egyptians. They're different people.

Answer 1

yes. they are and have been the greatest culture alive.Id hate to toot my own horn but toot.

Answer 2

Yea I got your point son. The English have a long and historical culture with a great deal of the same DNA in their population as their ancestors of six thousand years ago!.!.
It is believed erroneously that the English culture only started with the invasion of the "Roman Empire", but this is not so.
The information I've "paraphrased" here has only come to light in the last few years and the English are starting to eat up the archaeological facts, and evidence with great gusto!
The DNA tests have been recent and I cannot go into specifics as I was not listening to the documentary with a study in mind. So memorizing the details were not important to me. But I have the gist of the documentaries. The English are a people all on to their own. They are not even related to Europe's first civilization "The Celtoids".
The DNA tests from ancient digs, and the archaeological evidence shows how advanced they were two thousand years before "The Romans", and the direct descendants are still in England.
Neat eh? I was really intrigued with those documentaries, and I wish I could direct you to them, but I can't. It wasn't something I was academically concerned with, just very intriguing history.

Answer 3

The Native Americans of today are not the native Americans of 2000 years ago, in terms of genetic stock and culture. The tribes were actually very dynamic at certain points in their history even before the arrival of Europeans. That doesn't mean that today's native Americans don't have anything in common with their ancestors though.

It's thought that the Australian aboriginals might be the "oldest" but they too have undergone many changes.

Another group of people worth mentioning are the Sentinelese, a group of people who have been isolated on a small Island in the Indian Ocean for thousands of years,and are hostil to outsiders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

Answer 4

Given that you are asking about culture and not population, I don't think we can thoroughly answer your question. Culture is always in a state of flux. It changes to accomadate everything from climate to social processes. Native American cultures are no exception. If you take this into account. Native Americans are just as new as most in the United States.

China would certainly be one of the oldest, but even there the culture has changed by leaps and bounds in recent times.

Africa may also be the geographical candidate that I would look into most. There are places in Africa where the climate has not changed that much for their regions, and their cultures seem more intact.

Good luck with this one.

Answer 5

Well Native Americans certainly are old but I would agree with the Chinese theory even though it could be argued that they do not hold to the same traditions as they once did but then again neither do they Native Americans. There are also plenty of tribes in Africa that are fairly old. I think it is hard to say without doing some extensive research.

Answer 6

Some of the oldest civilizations are in India and China. It is suggested that Native Americans crossed the ice bridge from Europe into North America several thousand years ago and might be related to the Inuit.

Answer 7

Some people answer from the top of their heads and say, "Native americans are from Mongolians" which is, to a tiny degree, only partly true..... Eskimos are of the Mongoloid stock, but not the rest of Native americans..

I agree with the one who said Israelites because their ancestral roots can be traced to over 5000 years ago and they have retained their culture despite being scattered all over the world and are now in the process of regrouping in their original homeland...

Answer 8

I get your point. For example, the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin are direct descendants of an archaic woodland culture called The Old Copper Culture which dates back 10,000 B.C.E. They are truly indigenous to Wisconsin....and their current 235,000 acre reservation is on land that was part of their original 9 million acre homeland--and is less than 60 miles from the site of their creation (where the Menominee River meets the Green Bay (the body of water, not the city).

Answer 9

Native Americans are an old culture, but I am pretty sure it'd be a people like the Tasadays who can trace their culture back to prehistoric times...I think Stone Age. Or maybe some other old, untouched Polynesian or African society.

Answer 10

Probably some of the most pristine and untouched human cultures would be in the Andaman islands, New Guinea or remote parts of the Amazon basin. the Khoisan of south west Africa seem to be the most ancient human group according to genetic testing, but their way of life has been disrupted recently by mining and tourism. they have been taken of their land and put into reservations.

Answer 11

They are probably some of the oldest, but what about the Indians in India? There the longest living Civilization.
And the Aborigines and the Chinese.