Couple of years back, I posted something along this lines. Down here in South Africa, they now discovered evidence that the Chinese were actually the first, followed by Hindu Indians, and only much later, the Portuguese and the Dutch. Only thing is, the time line seems a little confusing. Sources vary, but it seems pretty long ago.
I recently listened to a talk ( by an Chinese native) who said that the Chinese actually taught the Africans how to make those Round, grass type huts which were used by most tribes. It seems a bit far fetched, but at this point I’m open to most ideas.
“Has there been any DNA evidence that African sailors travelled to the Americas?”
Not to sure about this. Africa was pretty untamed until very recently, and not many suggestions to this idea of yours. To have travelled to the Americas, they needed a big ship. Unless they had Arabian help (in North Western Africa), I doubt that the people of those years were able to build these ships. Not enough evidence in Africa to suggest this. A possibility would be that they may have had some help from the Portuguese, but that should have been documented.
“One of what was thought to be a pure DNA line in Africa was of the bush people. Their language has clicks and whistles which was thought to be a more primitive language. When the DNA was examined it was found to contain Arab strains.”
Wonder when and on whom they tested these DNA tests. The Bushman tribe originally came from the North of Africa, migrated and settled down in the South at the Kalahari dessert Their language is as you said, but through the last few hundred years, pretty much most of them has been “mixed” with various other races. Many African languages has these click sounds, and Athropology scholars would tell you that these tribes are all related in some way (Not only Bushman, also other African tribes). One of the last so called “original “tribes of bushmen that are still around these days, don’t even speak that old language anymore. They speak my native language, and adopted allot of Dutch culture, as many of them mixed with the Dutch settlers and their descendants. But Arabs have been in Africa for ages, and many African historians belief that Arabs even come from Africa, but that’s another story. I don’t really belief that DNA evidence proof anything on this topic.
“Now this next one at first was a surprise, then it made sense. The Jewish DNA was most closely related to the people of Syria and Palestine. After all, Abraham was their father and they had lived within close proximity of each other.”
Not surprising at all. Judaism is religion, the people pretty much were all from around the middle east. If Im not mistaken, wasn’t Jesus’ mother a Palestinian?
DNA evidence means very little in this topic. There are enough other evidence around which suggest that the world once fared the seas looking for new places. Often, all we need to do is open our eyes and our minds and just look.
Are there people on here who subscribe to the “Arian invasion” theory? In a nutshell the belief is that the Arians travelled from Eastern Europe through India etc, into China. Some sources even suggest these people were the founders of Chinese martial arts.
Cool topic. Going to try to get the book at the end of the month. January is usually a bit tight financially for us (after Christmas and the holidays).
Eddie
