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Subject: The first Americans

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Date Posted: 18:59:38 09/06/04 Mon

Anthropologists have revealed research that suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia.

Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool said skeletal evidence pointed strongly to this, and hinted that recovered DNA would corroborate it.

She said there was very strong evidence that the first migration came from Australia via Japan and Polynesia and down the Pacific Coast of America.

Skulls of a people with distinctively long and narrow heads discovered in Mexico and California predated by several thousand years the more rounded features of the skulls of native Americans.

One particularly well preserved skull of a long-face woman had been carbon dated to 12 700 years ago, whereas the oldest accurately dated native American skull was only about 9 000 years old.

"We have extracted her DNA. It is going to be a bomb,"
The tests carried out so far were being replicated to make sure they were accurate.

She said there were tales from Spanish missionaries of an isolated coastal community of long-face people in Baja California of a completely different race and rituals from other communities in America at the time.
These last survivors were wiped out by diseases imported by the Spanish conquerors

"DNA will give us a completely new map of the world and how we peopled it."

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