Justin writes:
“So what were the ancient Amerindians? We have to call them Amerindians, but racially they looked like a mixture of Australoid and Polynesian.”
How would you or anyone know this? Why wouldn’t they look like Eskimos?
“No one really knows what race the ancient Egyptians were. They do look like some Caucasoid-African mixture.”
Why would we not know what the ancient Egyptians look like, if it is known what other ancient people look like?
“The Europeans of 20-30,000 YBP most resembled the Amerindians of the NW coast like the Makah.”
How has that been determined?
“The Romans represent a race which is extinct (they were incredibly strong), but their descendants are the modern Italians of course.”
How do we know that Romans weren’t the same as today’s Italians?
“Europeans of 10-13,000 YBP resembled genetically and physically most closely modern Arabs.”
I’m just curious how you can possibly know all this. My understanding is that we have little idea beyond guesstimates.
We have paleo-Amerindian skulls and we have plotted them out. Depending on the era, they plot mostly closely with Australoids, Polynesians and Ainu. Eskimos are a new race; they only showed up 4-5,000 YBP.
We have drawings of the ancient Egyptians. We also have skulls, but I am not sure anyone has measured them. I think if you measure them, they look a lot like modern Egyptian skulls! They had 10-15% Black genes.
One of the most famous Cro-Magnon skulls of all was plotted against all existing modern skulls and looked most like skulls from NW America. That is from Wikipedia.
Roman skulls and skeletons look a lot different from modern skulls and skeletons. They were unbelievably strong, much stronger than any existing European group.
On Dienekes’ blog, he stated that skulls and genes of Europeans from 13,000 YBP resemble modern Arabs more than anything else.
