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Subject: A tribe called Quest

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MikeBuzz

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Date Posted: 12:37:18 09/04/03 Thu

Fossilised skulls from a long-extinct tribe found in Mexico have reignited a debate about how early humans colonised the Americas after emerging in Africa and trekking across Asia.

The conventional view is that Native Americans migrated sometime between 40,000 and 12,000 years ago. These intrepid explores used the Bering Strait island chain and headed southwards.

However a find of 33 skulls excavated from the tip of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico has questioned this explanation.

The discovery of these 'Paleoamericans' showed that the colonisation process was more complex, possibly entailing a broader genetic mix and a different timescale than is generally thought.
The colonisation instead of being a gradual movement southward, could have been in hops and jumps, down the Pacific coast.

In the this case of the "Paleoamericans" in Baja California, there is no evidence that the tribe mixed with Mongoloids.

They may have eventually died out, an isolated community, because of climate change and Baja California's geographic isolation.

After the last Ice Age, which ended about 10,000 years ago, the peninsula would have become warmer and drier - an arid, disconnected place that would have been forbidding for travel.

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