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From: Cheryl Simani <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA of H in Native American
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:32:46 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <NGEBIBEBDNALOFBCAFEBIEAMDDAA.lrayvick@cox.net>


The Smithsonian took roughly 10,000 skeletal remains during the Mound Excavation Project of 1882-1890. (see Thomas, Cyrus. Report on the Mound Explorations: The 12th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1894. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press reprinted, 1985.) Many of them have been returned to Tribal Committees, but I wonder how many are still locked away there.

The jaw-bone under which the Bat Creek Stone was found (mound 3 Little Tennessee @ Bat Creek, 1894) was inscribed in Roman Era paleo-Hebrew - Rak leY’hudim = "Only for/to the Jews" - strangely disappeared from the Smithsonian collection just when efforts were being made to have it dated. :-{


Ray Vick <> wrote: Sorry if it is obvious by my question that I haven't been following this
thread.

Is there any evidence of ancient "European" YDNA in Am Ind? I always think
of Am Ind as Q3 although McDonald's YDNA map shows they have other YDNA (C
or M?). I have often wondered how accurate the haplotype distribution is
for North American Indians (I am supposedly 1/16 Am Ind so I hope I am not
entirely Euro-centric) given what I understand to be a great deal of
movement and intermixing with whites and to some extent black Africans over
the past 400 or so years (or 500 in Mexico).

I can understand someone from the Genographic project seeking out backwater
tribes in Africa or Asia (or even Europe?) to hopefully get "pure" or
"representative" samples but how does one do that in modern America
especially the US?

So maybe we should be thinking that Native American's Q3 came from Central
Asia to the Americas via Siberia and Greenland?



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