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The first Americans were Japanese

04.11.2001

The first people who came to America from Asia may have been the descendants of one of the ancient peoples of Japan.

A comparison of two thousand ancient and modern human skulls collected around the world showed that the closest relatives of the first Americans were the ancient Japanese, whose civilization belonged to the so-called Jomon culture (VIII - I millennium BC), and the Ainu - also ancient , albeit a younger people who inhabited the northern part of the Japanese islands. It was the representatives of these two peoples who crossed the Bering Strait 15 thousand years ago (at that time there was an isthmus in its place) and first settled in Alaska, and a thousand years later they reached Cape Horn - the end of South America.

Modern Japanese still retain some of the features of the people of the Jomon era. The same traits are seen in the American Indians of the Sioux, Blackfoot, and Cherokee tribes. testify that the ancient Japanese were skilled shipbuilders and probably sailed south along the western coast of America, founding settlements in the most fertile places.

This means that man knew how to build ships at the time of hunting and gathering, in the Neolithic, long before the dawn of agriculture. Proof of this is the ancient remains of birch bark canoes discovered in Japan, very similar to boats, which were later used by the natives of America.

The second migration from Asia to America took place 3 - 4 thousand years ago, and the Chinese, Mongols and residents of Southeast Asia participated in it. They probably sailed on the water through the same Bering Strait. From these settlers came the Eskimos and Aleuts, and some migrants moved south and gave rise to the Navajo Indian people.

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