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The Hard Life Of The First American
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The Hard Life of the First American
A forthcoming book titled “Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton” provides a very detailed account of what might have been the life of this remarkable American ancestor, who roamed Washington State 9,000 years ago. His skeleton was found by chance almost two decades ago, enabling scientists to glimpse into an era which is all but forgotten.
While genetic testing is still ongoing, the thin shape of his skull suggests that he is from Polynesian descent, not Native American as was previously thought. Some two thousand after the end of the last Ice Age humans were already crisscrossing the planet.
At 5ft 7 inches and 163 lbs (74 kg) the "First American" was very sturdy, going after big game animals such as deer, antelopes and sheep. However, he survived primarily on fish and marine mammals, drinking glacial melt-water. He was likely right handed.
But this man had a very hard life. He died at 40 for unknown reasons, after sustaining some major injuries during his lifetime, including major blows to the head, as well as broken ribs as a result of an impact trauma that never healed properly. His shoulder was damaged from the constant stress of throwing spears. And most incredibly, a spear lodged deep into his pelvis was also found, which must have been very painful to live with for several years.
His man-made injuries raise some interesting questions. While they may have resulted from an accident, like a spear gone astray during a hunting expedition, squaring off with patterns from other ancient tribes suggests that serious conflicts among humans must have been a regular fact of life back then. Our ancestors from that era lived in a world which was far less than idyllic.
And this legacy continued throughout the centuries. Native Americans appear to have been in a constant state of warfare, with many tribes becoming extinct well before the arrival of Columbus. Not only did these tribes have to compete for food but also genes, where problems associated with inbreeding likely led to the common practice of raiding one another for women and slaves. The arrival of the Europeans did not make things any better, and not before long they were also fighting among each other.
It took us 9,000 years – the equivalent of 225 Kennewick Man lives – to get to where we are today. Thankfully things are much better now. Cooperation, education, innovation and exploring new frontiers have proven to be incredibly more productive endeavors to our survival and quality of life than warfare and conflict.
And yet, as a species it appears we still have a lot to do here. If he were alive today, the First American might have agreed.
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I can't think of anything more savage than starting a war that kills millions of innocent people.
And 'america' will be packed with resources, what an age it would be.
That facial reconstruction of the skull looks like Lloyd Blankfein. Was Goldman meddling around even back then?
Well he was a member of a wandering tribe LOL
So Catholic bashing and Jew bashing.
So, not wangluo shuijun. You guys are all Internet Research Agency. Do svidaniya.
Jew bashing???????
How bout you stop it with bashing the Gentiles for a change. I consider it discriminatory if someone calls himself the chosen one. Stop being racist you POS
Yup, I just finished watching "Cosmos" with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Everybody should watch it. Bigger and better than Carl's "billions and billions"...
Every sentient species has to cross a threshold. We stand before that threshold now. On this side is oblivion, on the other side is the stars. Only one percent 1% of sentient species get to the other side. Most wink out either by natural causes such as CMEs or impacts with other bodies, or by self-annhiliation.
How many here think TPTB can guide humanity through this evil cleansing that we must go through to show ourselves worthy???
Tyson is to physics, what Obama is to politics. Talentless affirmative action that reads a teleprompter written by their masters
History will be kind to Messrs. Sagan and Tyson. History will not be kind to TPTB... Thanks for the reply,,, ;-)
Tyson? Don't make me laugh.
I prefer Morgan Freeman and Through the Wormhole. At least he doesn't pretend to regurgitate other people's contributions as his own.
To Tyson's credit, at least he's charming, whereas another physicist - brother (they keep showing) is just plain annoying.
RIP Carl.
We're all going to die. Someday the entire Earth will be gone and everything that has been accomplished here will be anihillated. The Universe could give a rats ass what we do here. Enjoy your time at being alive while you have it. The only chance for humanity to survive is to travel the universe and find new worlds to colonize.
Colonize and destroy just like we did to mother Earth. Boy those alien natives better put up a good fight.
Either that or elect a Dakota Sioux as head of the UN an restore civilization and natural balance to the earth. It is intriguing the western mindset is go ahead and destroy everything we are going to die anyway. Simply brilliant.
"It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however competent can make the long climb from primitive conditions to high-level technology. This is a one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system fails so far as intelligence is concerned."
Sir Fred Hoyle
Viking Ship Discovered Near Mississippi River
Memphis| A group of volunteers cleaning up the shores of the Mississippi river near the biggest city in Tennessee, have stumbled upon the remains of an ancient boat encrusted in mud. A team of archeologists from the University of Memphis that was rapidly called to the site, confirmed that the ship is most certainly a Viking knarr, suggesting the Norse would have pushed their exploration of America a lot further than historians previously thought.
The heavily damaged ship was found near the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers, and lies on a private property. It has a length of about 16 meters, a beam of 4.5 meters, and a hull that is estimated capable of carrying up to 24 to 28 tons, a typical size for this type of ship. Knarrs were naval vessels that were built by the Norsemen from Scandinavia and Iceland for Atlantic voyages, but also used for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during an era known as the Viking Age, that goes approximately from 793 to 1066 AD. They were clinker built, which means the overlapping of planks riveted together. It was capable of sailing 75 miles (121 km) in one day and held a crew of about 20 to 30 men.
- See more at: http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/usa-viking-ship-discovered-near-mississi...
Story is a hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/vikingship.asp
Without a quirk of fate Rothschild could have been printing the money thousands of years sooner in the new world.
Let's get our terminology straight. There is no such thing as a "native american". All americans came from somewhere else, maybe polynesia or mongolia or even europe, but none became human here.
Ever notice how nativism is considered racist unless you're talking about indians?
Tyler have a look at this.
U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422%Very informative... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBI12nDbUqk
The indians were already off the grid, we are now striving to reach that level of sophistication once again with poor results.
- interview with Daniel Quinn
...very interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpAxV6uUxsM
That's why we need to change the name of the Washington redskins. Like the Maryland redskins or something. Anything but Washington. It's like saying murdering lying scum redskins
I wonder if this guy had to deal with some of the mega fauna that were around at the end of the last ice age. Some of the animals that were around back then were downright scary. The dire wolf, and the short-faced bear that could run down a horse, the american lion. I've heard some people say the reason North America was not inhabited by humans earlier was because some of these mega fauna were too formidable to deal with.
This is a favourite subject of mine. We've been lead to believe that the 'native Americans' (a debatable term) were nature-loving philosophers who all died peacably of old age. I've written about this and here are some jolting truths
“If the women of the tribe so demanded, captives would be ritually tortured, sometimes to death if the captive was deemed unfit for adoption into the tribe.” Recent findings reveal that precontact-era hostilities resulted in massacres and mutilation of men, women, and children, some of which were on a massive scale.
The Indians also demonstrated considerable vision and improvisation in developing methods of torture. Apart from the normal slow death by turning on the spit, specialities included smearing the victim with honey and then tying him (or her) to an ant’s nest. The agonising death throes could last for days before the partially eaten victim expired."
More: http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2010/10/tyranny-of-guilt.html
A fun Comanche trick was to cut off their enemies eyelids and tie them down face up into the sun. So they would be able to see better next time around.
Yes Settlers on barges floating down the Ohio River using indians as target practice really pissed them off.
His life was hard, but he was free.
Making it as a Wamart worker is no breeze either for some.
Much like Kennewick man, Obama also gets a spear lodged in his pelvis nightly, but there are no books written about it.
Sadly things are not getting that much better. The catalyst for war has not diminished as many people have hoped it would once the world matured. National pride, political agendas, religious and ethnic hatreds are some of the biggest roadblocks to world peace.
Often we seem to forget as we look back to World War II and at dozens of "lesser Conflicts" peace has been the exception rather then the rule for hundreds and thousands of years. The true reality is that across the world few mothers want to see their children killed and most farmers want to be left along to raise their crops and earn a living. More on the subject of war as a solution to conflict in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/05/war-and-what-is-it-good-for.html
Funny this. Native American people are Polynesian?
I thought it was common knowledge by now that a peaceful society is an exception, and tribal warfare has a massive casualty rate compared to "modern warfare", including 20th century. Native Americans obviously are not an exception.
The skeleton is a fake. As are all the Dino bones in the world, because the Hebrew Bible tells me that the world is only 6000-7000 years old.
Unless you question the Hebrew Bible, don't you know that Yahweh planted them to test your faith?
Spears have transformed into nuclear weapons.
To be transformed back into spears. . .
Reading the comments is a constant reminder of how pathetic you humans are, not just because of what you do and don't do, but because you don't even know what you are as a species ! Some of you want to be passive plants, some want to be animated but gentile herbivores, some are willing to be begrudging predators but only under absurdly complex rules of justifying defence, and a minority want to be what humans truly are - aggressive, voracious, creative, resourceful predators, in every aspect of your lives from sexuality, employment, business, politics, government, and actual physical fighting. War, or more fundamentally, using whatever means you can find to get what you want, is in your basic nature, in your genes, and you cannot wish it out. Those of you who refuse to accept this inescapable truth become the prey for those of you who embrace your predator heritage. I say embrace the predator heritage, excel at it, leverage it to become fierce, strong and tough like Spartans, to expand human achievement in technology, and to eradicate the parasites and the inferior weaklings.
Spartans and Vikings seemed to share many traits.
Brock Lesnar descends from Vikings which means the spartans would have been beaten like a little girl by Cain Velasquez.
"gentile herbivores".
mmm.....Freudian slip, or many a true word spoken in jest?
> "Native Americans appear to have been in a constant state of warfare, with many tribes becoming extinct well before the arrival of Columbus. Not only did these tribes have to compete for food but also genes, where problems associated with inbreeding likely led to the common practice of raiding one another for women and slaves."
Idiotic statement. If that had been true, then the same would have applied in other parts of the world, where similar small tribes dwelled in the beginnings, and gave way to large human settlements based on agriculture and trade.
It's a matter of different social structures, some open to change, others not. Certainly not of "having to compete for food but also genes" - that would be for chimps.
> "Cooperation, education, innovation and exploring new frontiers have proven to be incredibly more productive endeavors to our survival and quality of life than warfare and conflict."
????
Does this dude watch the news?
and bush is at fault...idiocy thy name is lea
If, 9000 years from now (assuming humans are still around and we haven't blown each other up) we found remains of humans today...like the 600 million humans that were killed by governments, I wonder what they would say about us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo
If only they had better surveyors in the tribe.
The first North Amercians were probably Solutreans from Western Europe, Pre-Clovis. Recent DNA evidence demonstrates that even Clovis had Eurasian heritage, all the way back to Germany.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/dna-analysis-shows-native-americans-...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21538-first-americans-were-they-ib...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY01NjND1jc
http://anthropology.si.edu/staff/Stanford/Stanford.html
http://www.primtech.net/
Eurasia, that is how 'american' indoeuropean call Asia when they want to pretend they are indigenous to Europe.
man is a funny animal. first man does not admit to being an animal because he thinks thinking makes him something different. in fact, man is the stupidest animal on earth. man is the only animal who kills his fellow human animal for more than food and sex. apparently, simply being another human is good enough for a good killing. man also defines progress as moving further away from the source of food. if the supply chain of food were to end tomorrow 90% of people would strarve because their food is not locally grown.
man is easily the dumbest animal on earth and his brain allows him to delude himself with the opposite opinion of himself.
One of my favorite quotes is that "Humans are not "the rational animal," they are the rationalizing animal."
Humans are not the only animals who kill their fellows for more than food and sex. When a female chimp becomes truly enraged at another female chimp, she will grab that female's infant and kill it and eat it in front of her. She is not eating it as food; it is rage-punishment. And male chimps engage in boundary wars, traveling to the territory of other chimp groups and ambushing foreign male chimps and killing them, in circumstances that do not show that they are doing it because they need food or sex. Well, they are our relatives, so I suppose it is not surprising that they act like us. It is also not surprising that we haven't changed much over the millenia.
Thank goodness the indians did not leave us wading around in DU and plutonium lightning spiked storms off the west coast.
A real problem with western civilization is the habit of pissing in your drinking water and emptying sewage in the rivers.
Who or what kiled off the 'big beasts' in the Americas?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/end-big-beasts.html
Homo stupidos, and not just in the Americas. The extinction of large animals is one reason why homo had to become a farmer.
The Hau de no sau nee, or the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, has existed on this land since the beginning of human memory. Our culture is among the most ancient continuously existing cultures in the world. We still remember the earliest doings of human beings. We remember the original instructions of the Creators of Life on this place we call Etenoha -- Mother Earth. We are the spiritual guardians of this place. We are the Ongwhehonwhe -- the Real People.
We have seen that not all people of the Earth show the same kind of respect for this world and its beings. The Indo-European people who have colonized our lands have shown very little respect for the things that create and support Life. We believe that these people ceased their respect for the world a long time ago. Many thousands of years ago, all the people of the world believed in the same Way of Life, that of harmony with the universe. All lived according to the Natural Ways.
Herding and breeding of animals signaled a basic alteration in the relationship of humans to other life forms.
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was the homeland, in ancient times, of various peoples, many of whom spoke Semitic languages. The Semitic people were among the first in the world to develop irrigation technology. This development led to the early development of towns, and eventually cities. The manipulation of the waters, another form of spirit life, represented another way in which humans developed a technology which reproduced a function of Nature.
The Western culture has been horribly exploitative and destructive of the Natural World. Over 140 species of birds and animals were utterly destroyed since the European arrival in the Americas, largely because they were unusable in the eyes of the invaders. The forests were leveled, the waters polluted, the Native people subjected to genocide. The vast herds of herbivores were reduced to mere handfuls, the buffalo nearly became extinct. Western technology and the people who have employed it have been the most amazingly destructive forces in all of human history. No natural disaster has ever destroyed as much. Not even the Ice Ages counted as many victims.
But like the hardwood forests, the fossil fuels are also finite resources. As the second half of the Twentieth Century has progressed, the people of the West have begun looking to other forms of energy to motivate their technology. Their eyes have settled on atomic energy, a form of energy production which has by-products which are the most poisonous substances ever known to Man.
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/6nations1.html#part1a
https://dublinsmick.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/guns-homeland_security1.png
Maybe the Kennowick Man was a member of the native “Red Man” race?
I know the Indian Red Man race existed. At a young age, I read all about the highly civilized Red Man in my Uncles Anthropology and Archeology library and the first encounters with the white settlers on the eastern seaboard of the American continent. I will never forget the artist plates of the colorful dress, regal stature and handsome features of the Red Man Indian. War was a game in which none were killed, but rather, in battle, they would touch their opponent and claim victory. Counting coo they called the practice. The civilized concept of the United Nations was a Red Man Indian concept.
No one wants to recognize the Red Man Indian today, it is if they never existed. The Iroquois, Mohawk, Algonquin and other tribes were the original Red Man Indian but today they are brown and disclaim their Red Indian heritage. They consider Red Man to be a slur against their race. Archeologist can’t explain the existence of the Red Man race or where they came from and under political pressure from Native Americans they have covered up the claim that they ever existed.
Google “Red Man Indian race” and you will not find them.
I was lucky enough to meet a red skinned Indian once that was about half Iroquois and he told me that I wouldn't see another Red Man because he was the last of the blood line, and he was right.
Education is mentioned...Isn't it ironic that so many modern Americans eschew education and embrace the prehistoric, tribal approach to life.
Just read the Old Testament to see how war was thousands of years before the New World was "discovered". "God" told the Jews to conquer other tribes and kill / burn all men, women, children and animals, buildings, farms, and infrastructure. Spare no one and nothing. And they're still proud of it to this day.
lie, lies, white man lies! /s
As the man on the corner told me "There is history and then there is Black history".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Until_Yesterday by Jared Diamond .
If the State loses control of the monopoly on armed force , continual low-grade warfare results .
Like Kennebeck man lived .
A life nasty , brutish and short .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-mercenary-patriot.html for why you might be heading the same way .
Orwell was afraid of the "boot in the face" . These societies become so poor that they cannot manage even boots .
"Barefoot in the face" does not have quite the same ring to it .
The indians had a very poor immigration policy. This allowed their lands to be flooded by low I.Q. savages resulting in the pollution and destruction we know face.
Next thing you know somebody will accuse the indians of herding people into open air prisons, dropping white phospherous on them, stealing their organs and cutting down their olive trees.
You have to be kidding. With what the Smithsonian has buried in their archives of various peoples between 7 and 9 feet who lived in North America and built the thousands of mounds across north America in 7000 BC if not earlier!?! This is more about perpuating myths than presenting the reall history of North America. If you go to South America than it goes back to at least as far.
In reply to thrustjo 63: I agree with you. Anthropology, along with most of all science, has been politicized and is dead.
" he is from Polynesian descent, not Native American as was previously thought"
sounds like he war far more " native American " than the Indians.
Im surprised youve'd succombed to politically correct NewSpeak.
A whole lot of speculation here from just a few injuries and a spear in the pelvis. The injuries could all come from sports, and the spear from making moves on somebody's girl sitting at a bar.
You know, like today. Maybe we haven't come so far.
What was that old Indian proverb,,,,,
Only after the last tree has been cut down
The last river poisoned
The last fish caught
will man then learn that money cannot be eaten
W A R ............................ without it....... the USSA ECONOMY collapses
Many tribes were extincted? How many?
'Americans', in 237 years, were able to beat that number by far.
'Americans', the best agent for extinction...