On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:49:37 +0100, Edgar Davies wrote:

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:19:28 +0100, Gautam Majumdar
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:02:14 +0100, Edgar Davies wrote:

Or are you suggesting that there is evidence that the Polynesians kept
going and reached the Americas?

This has been claimed. See :

Dillehay T D, Tracking the first Americans, Nature 2003; 425: 23-24

González-José R, et al, Craniometric evidence for Palaeoamerican
survival in Baja California, Nature 2003; 425: 62-65

Also there was another claim regarding a single skull, named Luzia from
South America (can't find the exact reference) which was also claimed to
be of possible Asian origin.

[Top posting corrected]

I've read Dillehay. Can't see any reference to Polynesians keeping going
and reaching the Americas. It's all Behring Straits stuff.

Found the reference for Luzia. See :

Holden C, Australasian Roots Proposed For 'Luzia', Science 1999; 286:
1467

See also : http://www.antiquityofman.com/Palaeoindian_origins.html

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