Mongolians first to discover America claims professor (fwd)

Sat Jan 12 00:01:29 UTC 2008

>From what I know about the Bering Strait theory, the crossings occurred at far too great a time depth for any significant (at least superficial) linguistic evidence to be present.  It's my understanding that any divergences great than 10,000 years are essentially impossible to prove, since the divergence will be great enough that similarities in the languages due to common genetic origin will not be statistically significantly greater than those due to chance.

Ryan Denzer-King

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:29:06 -0700From: bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COMSubject: Re: [ILAT] Mongolians first to discover America claims professor (fwd)To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Dear ILAT:
I find this topic interesting too since I read somewhere that there had been DNA comparisons done on American Indian and Mongolians or Asians?  Does anyone know if there was something like that in the past several years?  I believe it also stated that there were very little similarities. Regarding the Bering Strait theory--that's all it is according to the late Prof. Vine Deloria, it is not proven scientific fact that it occurred.  Also, where is the linguistic evidence that any Indigenous languages of the Americas are, in any way, similar to Asian or Mongolian languages?  It would seem that the issue of parallels in language has not been proven although there have been comparisons done.  

Bernadette A. Santamaria 
On 1/11/08, Dr. Dorene Wiese <dpwiese at aol.com> wrote: 

Dear ILAT LISTSERV.The article on the Mongolians is very interesting, considering, when we visited there with the first American Indian group  in l980, they hadnever heard of the Bering Strait theory. It is true, however, that when we took our group picture, some of us on Mongolian horses, in Ulan Batar,you could not tell who the Indians were and who the Mongolians were.  George Bordeaux has great film coverage of that historic event. It was a tremendous trip. I call that time, China before McDonalds. Dorene

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Mongolians first to discover America claims professor

12:01 | 11/ 01/ 2008
http://en.rian.ru/world/20080111/96196977.html

BEIJING, January 11 (RIA Novosti) - A Mongolian professor of history has said
America was discovered by the Mongolians and not Christopher Columbus, as is
popularly believed, the Xinhua news agency reported late on Thursday.

Professor Sumiya Jambaldorj from the Genghis Khan University in the Mongolian
capital, UIan Bator, performed a study proving the similarity between American
place names and words in the Mongolian language.

"About 8,000 to 25,000 years ago, Mongols with stone tools crossed the Aleutian
Islands and arrived in America," Jambaldorj was reported as saying.

The academic said that over 20 place names in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands could
be Mongolian.

"Many names of places and rivers in the U.S. state of Alaska are believed to be
Mongolian," he said.

The news agency said there were similar words in a Native American language and
Mongolian, e.g. "hagaan," which means "ancestor" in Mongolian.

Jambaldorj said there was much in common between the ancestors of the Mongolians
and the Native Americans, adding that some types of stone tools found in the
Aleutian Islands had also been discovered in the Gobi desert area of Mongolia.

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