Are Native Americans the oldest culutre that's still alive today?

Question

I mean Greeks, Romans, Egyptians have all disappeared...

There don't have any 'pure' descendants.

Today's Native Americans are the same Native Americans that lived 2000 years ago. Some have intermarried but many are pure Indigenous. Do you get my point?

Answer 1

Some of the oldest civilizations are in India and China. It is suggested that Native Americans crossed the ice bridge from Europe into North America several thousand years ago and might be related to the Inuit.

Answer 2

What planet are you on, dude?!

Greeks live in Greece; Romans are now Italians; Egyptians still live in Egypt...

Not to mention Aborigines in  Australia...

Eskimos in the North Pole...

Laplanders at the gentleman's club...Well, wherever Lapland  is....

Yeppers....The old world cultures still exist to this day!!

On and on and on....

Answer 3

of course not...........!!!!!!

Chinese history and tradition,stays alive among the siecles......

Also,there are still some greeks that are have the traditional habitudes that Greece used to have altought they now are old!!!!!

An other very good example are italians who doesn`t participate in Eurovision in order to keep their traditional music.

Answer 4

gosh no.  you're forgetting australia.  probably the oldest.  the Hunzas were a pretty pure bloodline, at least until recently.  and you certainly can't discount africa.

Answer 5

The Native Americans of today are not the native Americans of 2000 years ago, in terms of genetic stock and culture. The tribes were actually very dynamic at certain points in their history even before the arrival of Europeans. That doesn't mean that today's native Americans don't have anything in common with their ancestors though.

It's thought that the Australian aboriginals might be the "oldest" but they too have undergone many changes.

Another group of people worth mentioning are the Sentinelese, a group of people who have been isolated on a small Island in the Indian Ocean for thousands of years,and are hostil to outsiders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

Answer 6

Some people answer from the top of their heads and say, "Native americans are from Mongolians" which is, to a tiny degree, only partly  true..... Eskimos are of the Mongoloid stock, but not the rest of Native americans..

I agree with the one who said Israelites because their ancestral roots can be traced to over 5000 years ago and they have retained their culture despite being scattered all over the world and are now in the process of regrouping in their original homeland...

Answer 7

No, I would say native Africans.  There are native tribes there that still have no written history, I believe

Answer 8

What about the Chinese?  They've been around forever, too.

Answer 9

wut about China or India?

Answer 10

Probably some of the most pristine and untouched human cultures would be in the Andaman islands, New Guinea or remote parts of the Amazon basin. the Khoisan of south west Africa seem to be the most ancient human group according to genetic testing, but their way of life has been disrupted recently by mining and tourism. they have been taken of their land and put into reservations.

Answer 11

Yea I got your point son. The English have a long and historical culture with a great deal of the same DNA in their population as their ancestors of six thousand years ago!.!.

It is believed erroneously that the English culture only started with the invasion of the "Roman Empire", but this is not so.

The information I've "paraphrased" here has only come to light in the last few years and the English are starting to eat up the archaeological facts, and evidence with great gusto!

The DNA tests have been recent and I cannot go into specifics as I was not listening to the documentary with a study in mind. So memorizing the details were not important to me. But I have the gist of the documentaries. The English are a people all on to their own. They are not even related to Europe's first civilization "The Celtoids".

The DNA tests from ancient digs, and the archaeological evidence shows how advanced they were two thousand years before "The Romans", and the direct descendants are still in England.

Neat eh? I was really intrigued with those documentaries, and I wish I could direct you to them, but I can't. It wasn't something I was academically concerned with, just very intriguing history.

Answer 12

I get your point.  For example, the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin are direct descendants of an archaic woodland culture called The Old Copper Culture which dates back 10,000 B.C.E.  They are truly indigenous to Wisconsin....and their current 235,000 acre reservation is on land that was part of their original 9 million acre homeland--and is less than 60 miles from the site of their creation (where the Menominee River meets the Green Bay (the body of water, not the city).

Answer 13

The inhabitants of Iceland are also considered to have one of the oldest and 'purest' genetic lines.  Geneticists are constantly going to Iceland to take samples of genetic materials for research.

Answer 14

Given that you are asking about culture and not population, I don't think we can thoroughly answer your question.  Culture is always in a state of flux.  It changes to accomadate everything from climate to social processes.  Native American cultures are no exception.  If you take this into account.  Native Americans are just as new as most in the United States.  

China would certainly be one of the oldest, but even there the culture has changed by leaps and bounds in recent times.

Africa may also be the geographical candidate that I would look into most.  There are places in Africa where the climate has not changed that much for their regions, and their cultures seem more intact.

Good luck with this one.

Answer 15

The Chinese have been around 4000 years or so.

Answer 16

The oldest continuous culture is that of the Bushmen of Central & Southern Africa. They have been around for 15,000 years, and were contemporaries of some European Cro-Magnon cavemen...

Answer 17

Well Native Americans certainly are old but I would agree with the Chinese theory even though it could be argued that they do not hold to the same traditions as they once did but then again neither do they Native Americans.  There are also plenty of tribes in Africa that are fairly old.  I think it is hard to say without doing some extensive research.

Answer 18

They are probably some of the oldest, but what about the Indians in India? There the longest living Civilization.

And the Aborigines and the Chinese.

Answer 19

the Basque in Spain & France are pretty old

pre roman times

Answer 20

i think the aboriginals from Australia and maoris from New Zealand are. Not to mention the many pacific islanders

Answer 21

Native Americans are an old culture, but I am pretty sure it'd be a people like the Tasadays who can trace their culture back to prehistoric times...I think Stone Age.   Or maybe some other old, untouched Polynesian or African society.

Answer 22

its either north Africa or the middle east near Palestine. also for the guy above that was talking about Noah, he had three sons not just one. so if you are going to bring up biblical history get it right.

Answer 23

Look to Alaska

Look to Australia

Look to Africa

Answer 24

no, the oldest culture still alive today is in central or south africa.

Answer 25

yes. they are and have been the greatest culture alive.Id hate to toot my own horn but toot.

Answer 26

Native Americans come from the Mongolian peoples and they came to this land through way of the Bering Strait.

No one can trace his ancestors back to the beginning of recorded history except the Jews.

The Jews began with Shem who was the son of Noah, and this particular line goes back to Seth.. and that is as far back as you will go and their descendents are here now.