The 'First Nations' have some explaining to do

[Rokcet Scientist]

(29th February 2012 14:28)Rhythm Wrote:  Well, with the exception of some outliers, genetic sequencing doesn't show anything like that Mehmet. Major language families had been developed, these were fully modern human beings. If europeans colonized the americas in any substantial way before the Native Americans (an amusing term, regardless, and discussions like this emphasize exactly why) they were either completely outclassed in the resource gathering dept, or in direct conflict, or both.

Indeed.

(29th February 2012 09:38)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:  They probably said, look, there is another human. That's it.

Not bloody likely!
"Look there's the boogey man! Let's kill him!" is much more likely. They looked differently, they sounded differently, they probably smelled differently (important back then) and tasted differently too (maybe like fillet steak...), they were unknown (when they first met), they probably possessed what the others coveted, they were considered to encroach on the First Nation's turf/territory/hunting grounds, and they were vastly outnumbered.
Like Homo Sapiens Sapiens killed off the last Homo Neandertals and Homo Denisovans – boogey men to them, the First Nations probably wiped out the Solutreans/Caucasians. The competition. Simply because they could.

The first genocides among humans/homo probably took place 30,000 to 50,000 years ago. On Neandertals and Denisovans. The north American Caucasians were just another victim, 20,000 years later. And the 'phenomenon' has never left us since. As we know.