[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.]

The research for this series of articles took a decidedly unexpected turn. Early mound-builders were predecessors of the people removed from the land, so that the forced migration could enter. From where did the mound-builders come? We left last article with the question “Did they come via the Gulf and up the Mississippi tributaries?”

As it turns out recent genome (DNA structure) research bears on the question. Why should we be concerned? The genome is extremely important, since it gives disposition to certain diseases, as much as eye color and physical stature. Substantial evidence shows genetic history even influences the way our body processes certain foods.

A National Geographic article states: “Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome.” The research involved skeletal remains of a young boy buried within a ceremonial structure in Siberia.

The Western Eurasian are a mixing of peoples from Middle Easterners and Europeans. That would imply a mix of Semitic and Indo-European (old Japhetic) language groups.

But the data keeps getting more interesting. This is literally the “cutting-edge of society.” In 29 November 2021, the Greek Reporter discussed the same research published 20 November 2021 in Nature journal. Researchers believe this is the oldest genome of modern humans ever sequenced. The boy had brown eyes, dark hair, and freckles. Really?

“This study changes this idea, because it shows that a significant minority of Native American ancestry actually derives not from East Asia but from a people related to present-day western Eurasians,” according to the researchers.

He goes on to say, “Although we know that North Americans are related to East Asians, it”s striking that no contemporary East Asian populations really resemble Native Americans.” Native Americans do not fit well with contemporary East Asians.

Bear in mind that the Chinese and East Asia culture is very diverse with segments having apparent early West Asia (Shang, Chou), Near African (Sino, Cathay), and Indo-European (Chiang) relations. So, any association of Native American to East Asian appears to have occurred with an ethnic segment while still in the cradle of civilization.

When discussing where the blending of Western people could have occurred the researchers hypothesize, “It could have been somewhere in Siberia or potentially in the New World,”

This info gives a lot to think about. The Native American genome is the oldest decoded so far. The genome is heavily Western Eurasian. The genome does not correlate to any present Eastern Asian. The cultural blending may have been in North America. These are data points.

Add to the data that the northern, cold-weather people of North America & Greenland have different mutations and arrived on the American scene much later.

Based on this new data, no one has developed an encompassing premise about the people, other than the migratory hypothesis in the previous article.

The data appears to validate a movement and interaction between North America and Mediterranean cultures well before pre-history. Why is there no record and the traditional anthropology story is now shown erroneous?

The history has to do with written language. Think about the oldest story of language disruption. Oh, that time correlates precisely to the earliest Mississippi basin mound-builders about 4000 BCE.

Be cautious with dating and ages. Archaeologists can fairly accurately correlate events occurring near the same time-period. Correlation to events at other time-frames is much less scientific and definitive. Correlation between pottery and human genome or geological time is even more nebulous.

Do not lose your religion because someone interprets dates differently. Are the framework of the events, stories, and values consistent? Think on these things.

Anthropologists are now open to the early importance of North American people in pre-history. Their apparent relationship to the dispersion from the cradle of civilization is intriguing. The correspondence to the BaíBel stories is striking. The next article will trace the historical language problems and mores.

If anything, this research shows us to not discount the ancient history and cultural stories handed down, whether by Babylonians, Hebrews, Greeks or Native Americans. They have a basis and reason.

Think about the fact that the ancient Native American genome has significant modern Western Eurasian heritage with no ties to contemporary East Asian genome. What does that do to our understanding of people relationships and history? Who were these people and why were they here?