posted by Mike at 01:08

Monday, December 30, 2002

 

This'll make the brown supremacists cry, if its implications are true. According to The Independent a skeleton found in Mexico adds more evidence to the theory that the original "native" Americans were European. The skull, dated 2,000 years older than any other in the Americas, shows the caucasiod feature of being long and narrow, unlike mongoloid skulls.

Of course more study is needed; at this stage one can reach many conclusions. But, it is still fun to imagine if this had come out during the school year because there would be no telling what certain groups would do.

Every year there are groups advocating to "stop the invasion" of whites to the continent and the return of all property back to the indigeous peoples. Does indigeous peoples day revert back to Columbus Day? How can Native American rights groups argue certain cases with the lingering possibility that their "native Americans" may have also killed and supllanted the previous "native Americans" (who may have...)?

This discovery aside, we should realize that there are never indigeous people-- humans are explorers. Nowadays, any occupied land was once in other hands, so the very idea of land "ownership" is merely a term of convenience (much like the idea of a race). Does stepping on it first grant you exclusive rights? Or, is being able to defend it the key? Unfortunately, 3.8 billion years of life's existence favor the latter.

So, if your keeping score, America was discovered by a southern European but it was discovered before by a nothern European who arrived thousands of years after Asians migrated over following stoneage Europeans, all of whom evolved from Africa, who were placed on Earth by (R)aelians.