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Those Aussies are everywhere. In a discovery that may rewrite ancient history, a group of Brazilian researchers has some anthropologists believing that the first inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere may have been blacks from Australia rather than Mongoloids from Northeast Asia. Research presented this week portrays a people who traveled by sea from Australia to South America 13,000 years ago. Anthropologists have long reasoned that the Americas' first inhabitants were Mongoloid hunters who followed large game across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, formed between 12,000 and 20,000 years ago when glaciers melted. Over the centuries...
...woman who's spawning the debate, nicknamed Luzia, were found in 1975 outside Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city, and were in storage in a Rio museum for a quarter of a century. That sound you hear is the typing of "X-Files" writers: Australian aborigines as an ancient clan of seafaring aliens...
...historical truth." One cannot help wondering why he did not mention the four most widely known examples of apologetically inspired fictionalization: the canonical Gospels. Krauthammer's examples of "brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them" are simply following the examples of the ancient Evangelists and the modern Evangelicals. What goes around comes around. THOMAS W. HALL JR. Foster...
...series, Gates visits the ancient cities of Great Zimbabwe, Mapungubwe and Kerma, the first capital of the ancient black kingdom Nubia...
...expert in ancient Chinese historical narratives, will join the Department of East Asian Studies (EAS) as a tenured professor in September...