Wait a minute, How did the Native Americans came from Africa?

Question

I thought they came from Asia but some guy said that they came from Africa, I dont get it, if they came from africa why dont they have ******* facial features. They looked like Asians
with the eyes and the face and everything. but still how did they come from africa? if they were black then is it possible that we blacks were here first??

Answer 1

American Indians look more like the Japanese than African Americans, don't you think?

Answer 2

Native Americans In Africa

Answer 3

Yes, the first Native Americans came from Asia. That's now pretty well accepted. They walked across the Bering Strait during an ice age.

But, the current theory (possibly to be replaced by some future theory) is that ALL humans originated in the Rift Valley in Africa, where the oldest known human remains were found.

The theory states that one branch of that original human group migrated across Asia, ended up in what is now Siberia, and headed off to North America.

It's very possible that that happened. It's also possible that something else altogether different happened. Perhaps we will never know for sure.

Answer 4

The people we call Native Americans today came across a land bridge between Russia's Siberian area and Alaska's Seward Peninsula over 13,000 years ago. During the ice ages of the Pleistocene era, the trip was made easily across land instead of water. Because of the ice, the shallow waters of today's BERING STRAIT (named after Danish explorer VITUS BERING, who was working for the Russian czar of the 18th century) dropped 300 feet and created an area of grassland (called a steppe) that was 1,000 miles wide and 55 miles long. This area became the land bridge that made possible the prehistoric peopling of the Americas from Asia. Plants and animals had traveled back and forth across it with no problem, so finally humans decided to take the journey, too.
The first African slaves did not reach America until 1619 when 20 slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia. So, you see, there were several thousand years in between the two times, and whoever told you this was wrong. Native Americans today were indeed once from Asia, not Africa.

Answer 5

Anything is possible considering that the earth is just as old as it's creator. I might be wrong about this, but if they were around during Pangea, it's possible that they may have originally came from what we now know as Africa as the land masses were once lumped together (theoretically). So all they would have to do is migrate across the land mass and land in the U.S. Plus, for one reason or another, one tribe may have mingled with another tribe along the way.

So in a way, this makes me think of the age old question of the chicken and the egg. We may never know the answer to the question, but it is an interesting thought.

Answer 6

Early humans first migrated out of Africa into Asia probably between 2 million and 1.7 million years ago. They entered Europe somewhat later, generally within the past 1 million years. Species of modern humans populated many parts of the world much later. For instance, people first came to Australia probably within the past 60,000 years, and to the Americas within the past 35,000 years.

Answer 7

and here you learn how to discern truth from b.s. You've already identified the reasons why American Indians did not come from Africa. Besides the facial features skin tone the question remains "how did they get here?"

Answer 8

ummm yeah its called a boat. why do you think everyones black in Australia. EVERYBODY KNOWS they came from Africa. They did the same giving the line of dynasties including the Aztec and Zapotec and before that Mayan and Olmecccc

Answer 9

i remember reading a book about Indians that seen a african slave for the first time that was with lewis and clark according to them they thought it was great medicine to be so dark complected because they have never seen them before i believe they may have interbreed with africans and took in slaves and easily converted them to indian way of life sometime ago my uncle was full blooded indian and had wirey hair in his beard i have this also and im mixed with native american.mexican,german,spaniard but it doesent describe me as a individual it describes my ethnic groups and for all of yall that dislikes the earliest human remains being found in africa your probably racist which the bullshit needs to stop we all bleed the same color http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o

Answer 10

Jesus! They originated in Africa the same as all of humankind. The Multi-Regional theory even states the same. The question is whether they left as homo sapien or not.

Answer 11

Wait a minute more! How did I get brown hair? My mother has blonde hair, and my dad has black hair! It doesn't make sense!

Am I "*******"?

[sigh]

For anyone who looks to scientific methods to answer the questions of how different nationalities arrived where they were when that was first written down, or how they got to look the way they look, the alleged mystery of the African origin of all humans is not so mysterious. I'll admit it can get pretty complicated, much less accessible than "it ain't so" or "God willed it," but not out of reach of the human intellect.

One really clever method of understanding the origin and diffusion of modern humans from Africa is genetic analysis.

Now, I don't believe that DNA tells us what "race" a person belongs to, mainly because race is more a social, aesthetic and historical construct than a biological one. (Don't believe me? Then explain the "one drop rule" for African ancestry, or the 19th century British reaction to Afrikaners in South Africa and Irish in North America as members of a different "race" from the British.)

DNA is such a hugely complex molecule, and its behavior is so regular over time, that differences among groups of individuals can yield surprisingly clear testimony about human origins and diffusion, not in all cases, but in many.

Another ingredient in discovering human origins and diffusion is a principle of population genetics, common to all forms of life on earth. The greatest genetic variation (and therefore usually phenotypic variation) occurs at the place of origin. According to this theory, the part of the world with the greatest variety of uncultivated apple trees (Kazakhstan) is likely to be where the tree evolved. And the continent with the greatest variety of human genes (Africa) is likely to be where humans evolved.

Then there's the archaeological record. If you don't trust teh various technologies to determine the age of biological material, or the information gleaned from stratigraphy, then you can discount archaeological evidence completely. But that leaves a major scientific contribution to the understanding of human origins out of the picture. And it happens to be a contribution that pretty closely supports the genetic variation-based story of human origins and diffusion.

Of course, you may like the different origin stories of people around the world. I regularly read from a collection of myths and folktales to my son. Great stuff, really intriguing. If any of those stories does it for you, who am I to question your belief? I don't see much difference between stories my son hears about the origin of the world, and the stories he concocts on the spot. Except that the stories he concocts on the spot are usually less coherent, but given time, they could shape up into origin myths of their own.

However, none of these origin myths is testable. And as faith is a key element in many origin myths, testing them isn't really appropriate. It misses the point. Faith means not doubting.

Science, however, means doubting, questioning, researching, doubling and tripling efforts, comparing, reviewing, and debunking. Out of this comes theory (or the death of an anticipated theory...)

As to why "they" don't have "*******" facial features, our facial features are relatively recent outgrowths of our human history. The "mongoloid" or general East Asian appearance is so distinct because it is of recent origin. And if you look closely, several parts of that appearance, that phenotype, are actually not represented well across the whole of Native American populations. The first modern humans to migrate (according to scientific explanations, not mythical ones) predated the propagation of the typical East Asian phenotype throghout the region where many Native Americans' ancestors lived in East Asia.

I'm not a fan of phrenology (cranial measurement), or of naming and comparing parts of faces and assigning them to different populations, but Native Americans tend to have more prominent noses than East Asians, and lack the epicanthic folds, for two examples of difference.

Who's to say that the modern humans who emerged from Africa looked like Africans today? And what do Africans today look like anyway? There's quite a bit of difference among Africans.

Oh, well. I guess this is useless. The asker thinks that African origins means that Africans sailed across the Atlantic to North America. They did, by the hundreds of thousands, and intermarried with Native Americans with some frequency, but in so doing, they met and intermarried with relatives separated by hundreds of thousands of years.