David Hobby wrote: > > If so, one who wanted > to prove that everybody was descended from a Eurasian of 5000 years > ago would have to show that all of the native peoples of the Americas > had picked up some European blood in 20 to 25 generations. Even > tribes deep in the Amazon jungle... > Those brazilian tribes are not a problem - the native culture made the females always want to get babies by the most powerful warrion around - which happened to be the European invaders, with their magic weapons.
So, even after the European invasion began in an organized way, lots of tribes had welcomed European refugees - by 1600 or so maybe there was one European ancestor in most coastal tribes. And no Amazon tribe is fully isolated: it's common to share members, sometimes by kidnap and rape, sometimes by welcoming an exile. *If* there isany isolated tribe from 1500 or so, it must be located in some isolated island in the Pacific, not in some corner of the Amazon. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
