The first Americans were black

[Lobwi]

This is not really breaking news it has been known of for about 7 years now, but the majority of scientist all agree now that the first Americans came not from Siberia but from Australia and it's neighboring islands. Sites that have been found all over the Americas and mostly in Brazil, and the skulls have facial features that are very similar to the native peoples of Australia.

And these people are descendant from great Afrikan explores and colonists who left Afrika some 65 to 70 thousand years ago. And colonized much of South East asia and the southern seas.

Here is the whole story from.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/430944.stm

Sci/Tech

'First Americans were Australian'



This is the face of the first known American, Lucia

The first Americans were descended from Australian aborigines, according to evidence in a new BBC documentary.

The programme, Ancient Voices, shows that the dimensions of prehistoric skulls found in Brazil match those of the aboriginal peoples of Australia and Melanesia. Other evidence suggests that these first Americans were later massacred by invaders from Asia.

Until now, native Americans were believed to have descended from Asian ancestors who arrived over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and then migrated across the whole of north and south America. The land bridge was formed 11,000 years ago during the ice age, when sea level dropped.

However, the new evidence shows that these people did not arrive in an empty wilderness. Stone tools and charcoal from the site in Brazil show evidence of human habitation as long ago as 50,000 years.

The site is at Serra Da Capivara in remote northeast Brazil. This area is now inhabited by the descendants of European settlers and African slaves who arrived just 500 years ago.

But cave paintings found here provided the first clue to the existence of a much older people.



The costumes and rituals shown in rock art survived in Terra del Fuego

Images of giant armadillos, which died out before the last ice age, show the artists who drew them lived before even the natives who greeted the Europeans.

These Asian people have facial features described as American Indian. However, skulls dug from a depth equivalent to 9,000 to 12,000 years ago are very different.

Walter Neves, an archaeologist from the University of Sao Paolo, has taken extensive skull measurements from dozens of skulls, including the oldest, a young woman who has been named Lucia.

"The measurements show that Lucia was anything but American Indian," he says.



Walter Neves has measured hundreds of skulls

The next step was to reconstruct a face from Lucia's skull. First, a CAT scan of the skull was done, to allow an accurate working model to be made.

Then a forensic artist, Richard Neave from the University of Manchester, UK, created a face for Lucia. The result was surprising: "It has all the features of a negroid face," says Dr Neave.

Lucia's skull is 12,000 years old

The skull dimensions and facial features match most closely the native people of Australia and Melanesia. These people date back to about 60,000 years, and were themselves descended from the first humans, who left Africa about 100,000 years ago.

But how could the early Australians have travelled more than 13,500 kilometres (8,450 miles) at that time? The answer comes from more cave paintings, this time from the Kimberley, a region at the northern tip of Western Australia.

Here, Grahame Walsh, an expert on Australian rock art, found the oldest painting of a boat anywhere in the world. The style of the art means it is at least 17,000 years old, but it could be up to 50,000 years old.

And the crucial detail is the high prow of the boat. This would have been unnecessary for boats used in calm, inland waters. The design suggests it was used on the open ocean.

Fantastic voyage

Archaeologists speculate that such an incredible sea voyage, from Australia to Brazil, would not have been undertaken knowingly but by accident.

Just three years ago, five African fishermen were caught in a storm and a few weeks later were washed up on the shores of South America. Two of the fishermen died, but three made it alive.

But if the first Americans had drifted from Australia, where are their descendants now? Again, the skulls suggest an answer.

The shape of the skulls changes between 9,000 and 7,000 years ago from being exclusively negroid to exclusively American Indian. Combined with rock art evidence of increasing violence at this time, it appears that the American people from the north invaded and wiped out the original Americans.



Fuegean Cristina Calderon may be one of the few surviving descendants of the first Americans

The only evidence of any survivors comes from Terra del Fuego, the islands at the remotest southern tip of South America.

The pre-European Fuegeans, who lived stone age-style lives until this century, show hybrid skull features which could have resulted from intermarrying between American Indian and negroid peoples. Their rituals and traditions also bear some resemblance to the ancient rock art in Brazil.

The identity of the first Americans is an emotive and controversial question. But the evidence from Brazil, and a handful of people who still live at the very tip of South America, suggests that the Americas have been home to a greater diversity of humans than previously thought - and for much longer.

[Kushnology]

This is outstanding information, brother Lobwi. I guarantee there's much more information to be revealed that's being kept secret. Western academia can't continue to tell the world lies and maintain secrets forever. Asante Sana and welcome.

[North Star]

nice info. Have you ever read They came before columbus? it explains pretty much what you have listed.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Kushnology

I guarantee there's much more information to be revealed that's being kept secret. Western academia can't continue to tell the world lies and maintain secrets forever.

That's why I've always very suspicious of so-called scientists and their latest "discoveries". I know that the ancient world was much more varied and complex than most people think. A lot of speculation goes on when a new scientific report comes out. So now not only are we responsible for the destruction of the megafauna after the last ice age, but we are also responsible for the genocide of other indigenous people. Now first let's get some things staight, I'm not saying there is no relation btw NDNs and Asians, there clearly is just looking at hair, however the Bering Strait theory has a number of flaws and has been another sacred cow of western academia for decades. It's been my belief that the ancient origins of the indigenous people of the western hemisphere is quite varied, as there are a variety of "looks" or phenotypes in genetic -speak. I'm not so sure that there is only one group of people left who show a hybridization of black and red phenotypes based on just the variety of NDNs I've met in my lifetime who did not have recent Afrikan ancestors but showed plenty of black features. Now warfare was not unknown to our people, however large scale genocide I've never seen evidence of amongst hunter/gatherers which also makes me suspicious of the assertations in this article. And if all the black people were exterminated 10,000 years ago, who were the people represented in the giant Olmec heads?

I find this subject fascitinating cause I try to learn about the old stories and see where they intersect with different knowledge about ancient times. For my nation, we have detailed aural/oral history since about 1,000 years ago when there was a very signifigant event and the coming of a "prophet" for lack of a better term. Before that it's stories about the really ancient world when humans were created, the animals spoke, etc...

They Came Before Columbus was a good read. It's been over 15 years since I read it, and just last week my pops found my copy while doing some cleaning up, so you can bet I'll be digging back into that one again.

[mhotep]

Originally Posted by Lobwi

Just three years ago, five African fishermen were caught in a storm and a few weeks later were washed up on the shores of South America. Two of the fishermen died, but three made it alive.

Anybody heard more about those fishemen before? I'm trying to find out who they are and where they came from. Are they the first to ever experience that journey before? Does this confirm Mansa Muhammad's trans atlantic journey?

[Aragorn]

Look at the carvings of their stone monuments(example):



If you didn't know this carving was done in Mexico-what African country would you think it was carved in?

[guera]

I would think it was from West Africa. However, I already knew it was from Mexico that is a Olmec head.