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by D J Thornton
Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:43 am
Forum: Native American
Topic: English Dominion 1763
Replies: 3
Views: 7667

Re: English Dominion 1763

26 MISSISSIPPI PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES . Names of Villages, Chiefs and No. of Inhabitants of the Tchacta Nation. TCHACTAS Noms des Villages des differentes parties de la nation Tchac- tas, des Chefes auxquels on donne des presentes Particuliers et le nombre des guerriers auxquelles on donne des presente...
by D J Thornton
Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:37 am
Forum: Native American
Topic: English Dominion 1763
Replies: 3
Views: 7667

English Dominion 1763

This compilation of MS Territory Records begins with the English taking over from the French at Mobile Ft. Conde and Spanish in Pensacola West Florida. Ther is Business of the Govt with Military and Indians and Indian Trade, many names of each included. https://archive.org/stream/mississippiprovi01m...
by D J Thornton
Wed Sep 05, 2018 1:49 am
Forum: Native American
Topic: What the ancient DNA discovery tells us about Native American ancestry
Replies: 0
Views: 20569

What the ancient DNA discovery tells us about Native American ancestry

A new genome from a Pleistocene burial in Alaska confirms a longstanding model for the initial peopling of the Americas A little over 11,000 years ago, a grieving family in Central Alaska laid to rest a six-week-old baby girl, a three-year-old child, and a preterm female fetus. According to their cu...
by D J Thornton
Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:05 pm
Forum: African
Topic: Hap K
Replies: 0
Views: 36059

Hap K

Haplogroup K is believed to have originated in the mid-Upper Paleolithic, between about 30,000 and 22,000 years ago. It is the most common subclade of haplogroup U8b.[3] with an estimated age of c. 12,000 years BP.[4] https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Haplogroup_K_(mtDNA) Thomas Jefferson was K, he dece...
by D J Thornton
Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:04 pm
Forum: African
Topic: Africans in Early American pre History
Replies: 3
Views: 63255

Africans in Early American pre History

More could be added to this but then we come to an interesting point. There is a long line of academic sceptics ready to pounce on any suggestion that Africans in Pre-Columbian times were capable of being sailors in their own right. This is especially so for Africans sailing the Atlantic and Africa-...
by D J Thornton
Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:50 pm
Forum: Native American
Topic: Phoenicians in Early America
Replies: 0
Views: 19940

Phoenicians in Early America

If a word meaning drunks can be removed as showing the forebears of one Semitic people, a Sanskrit word meaning thieves as well as traders probably means it too should be removed as marking the ancestry of the Phoenicians. The word of Eskimos derives from a word in a language of neighbours who were ...
by D J Thornton
Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:44 pm
Forum: Native American
Topic: Before Columbus, Celtic in New World
Replies: 0
Views: 19674

Before Columbus, Celtic in New World

Review of : BEFORE COLUMBUS : The New History of Celtic, Egyptian, Phoenician, Viking, Black African And Asian Contacts and Impacts in the Americas Before 1492 By Dr. Samuel D. Marble http://ancientamerica.com/review-of-before-columbus-the-new-history-of-celtic-egyptian-phoenician-viking-black-afric...
by D J Thornton
Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:40 pm
Forum: Native American
Topic: Anomalous DNA in the Cherokee
Replies: 0
Views: 19969

Anomalous DNA in the Cherokee

The third chapter of Donald Yates’ history of the Cherokee (Old World Roots of the Cherokee, McFarland 2012) contains the genetic story of the Cherokee Indians based on DNA Consultants’ 2009 study “Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA in the Cherokee,” but it is no easy read, being written for an academic au...
by D J Thornton
Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:03 pm
Forum: Native American
Topic: Mysterious Origins of Native Americans to Middle East, Ancient Greece
Replies: 0
Views: 20127

Mysterious Origins of Native Americans to Middle East, Ancient Greece

https://www.theepochtimes.com/geneticist-traces-mysterious-origins-of-native-americans-to-middle-east-ancient-greece_831180.html This article review Yates work on Cherokee DNA and there’s a linked utube video It is commonly held that Native Americans descended from Mongolians. In 2013, a study publi...

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