Quote:
Originally Posted by wodin
American history tends to polarize into pre-Columbian an post-Columbian, even though there is credible evidence that Columbus was a relative late comer.
But there is a hypothesis that the Cherokee people of the eastern US were descendants of western Europeans, and were the precursors of the Clovis culture. One of the reasons for this is that there has been Clovis like tools found in Europe. They think that during the ice age, these nomadic people followed the terminus of the glaciations while hunting seals, and so crossed over to the eastern US/Canada.
|
That is interesting. Like millions of us, I have some diluted Cherokee in me from back to the 5th generation grandmother. It was a huge scandal when my 5 times grandfather ran off with her! It caused a split in my family, which left us unknown to the rest of our Scottish clan until I did our geneology back in the 90's.
Everybody came from somewhere. Maybe they will do a gene study someday, like they did on the Libyans to prove that they are the descendants of the Phoenicians. It would be cool to find out that the Cherokee were descended from, for example, Celts.