Are native americans descendants of early Syrians?

Question

An article I can't find now said that they had a DNA similarity to (if I remember correctly) Syrians...... anybody else hear about this?

Answer 1

I have heard something similar.  Both times it was from Mormon writings and had something to do with the lost tribes being Native Americans.  It doesn't make sense from a genetics, linguistic or any other logical way.  I believe it was just Joseph Smith or someone else trying to legitimize why God would give golden tablets to Native Americans.

Answer 2

The Bering Straight Myth is one of the biggest scams perpetuated by scholars.  If you do a linguistic analysis there were more languages spoken in the Americas than europe and asia combined, which suggests people were in the Americas BEFORE they were in Asia or Europe.  Read Red Earth, White Lies by Vine Deloria he breaks it down.

Answer 3

No. The bulk of their ancestry is Asian, with some very ancient European DNA showing up, mitochondrial DNA haplotype X. Look up 'the Solutrean hypothesis', they think some Europeans made it across the Atlantic by following the edge of the pack ice and hunting seals.

Also, there's evidence the Australoids made it to the Americas first (the Pericues of Baja California, who were black) and the body of Kennewick man is also very different to Asian, and predates the Asian population wave. Apparently he was more like an Ainu.

There's also persistent myths of another people existing in the Americas before the modern Asian/Amerindian people took up residence. Generally they are described as red haired giants. Who knows for sure,

Answer 4

Please read the book "Red Earth, White Lies" by Vine Deloria Jr.  if you are really interested in this topic.

I personally find it offensive that it is suggested that Natives come from anywhere but here (which is usually the case when someone is talking about genetic similarity to another ethnic group).  There is little evidence to back up these theories although they are popular and widespread.  The science they are built off itself is built from faulty logic and faulty science.  The book explains it in detail.  In fact there is quite a bit of scientific evidence that Natives have been here all along.

Please note that it is entirely possible that Natives have genetic similarities to many other groups.  At one point the whole world was made up of indigenous people.  It is also true that Natives had boats and did have the ability to trade across seas.  It is very possible that they had children with the people they traded with.

I am a Native woman.

Answer 5

Its quite possible.  Some Souix Indians DNA comes from ancient Greece.  

I believe a serious scientific review of how the America's came to be populated is in order.

Answer 6

the latest research still points to Asians as it always has.

Just look at Native Americans and you'll know the answer.

Answer 7

Please check this sites.

http://www.nativeamericans.com/  

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