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Old June 11th, 2015 #12
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They might have been Carthaginians:

http://www.amren.com/news/2013/09/ho...fore-columbus/


But it is difficult to get past the genetic evidence:

"The haplogroups B2 and D1 are a clear indication that the maternal lineage was American. Haplogroup M is quite strange because it is not one of the founding lineages of American Natives. It is found in Asia and only one other study mentions haplogroup M in the New World. Perhaps future studies will find more cases of it.

Anyway all three haplogroups are of a East Asian origin. This is ratified by a principal component analysis of SNPs overlapping between modern populations and the Chachapoyans which places them clearly in the "Amerindian" group together with the Aymara and Mayas, far from the Europeans and admixed hispanics (Colombian, Puerto Rico and Mexicans from Los Angeles) and closer to the East Asian groups. These people were definitively not "white" Europeans, they were Native Americans with ties to Eastern Asia."

http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.co...-or-white.html


If we can admit to the existence of a remnant white group remaining separate in S America, could there have been a remnant white group in East Asia from a long-ago invasion?

I know it is possible to cross 2 very different dog breeds, select for the color of one but still keep a large store of the genetics of the other. Perhaps if this remnant group intermixed but strongly tended to select for white looks in their population?

Fascinating stuff. Probably no way to find out for sure unless we invent a time machine.