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Anthropology

Warpy

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3. Oh, yeah, the pig ignorant lost tribes people

Reply to wnylib (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 21, 2022, 05:16 PM

Mar 2022

They were just as funny as the idiots chasing El Dorado. Religion and greed, the twin devils of colonialism.

Turns out there might be evidence of a lost tribe in southern Africa, the Lemba people. They told anthropologists for years that they were Jews but it wasn't until anthropologists discovered the Cohen modal haplogroup among some of the men of the tribe that anyone bothered to listen to them.

Of course, not being pale, blonde and with blue eyes, they didn't particularly qualify.

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Human life in Canada's Yukon Territory 24,000 years ago [View all] wnylib Mar 2022 OP

Thanks, never did buy the land bridge hypothesis Warpy Mar 2022 #1

Agree. I was always skeptical of the wnylib Mar 2022 #2

Oh, yeah, the pig ignorant lost tribes people Warpy Mar 2022 #3

Well, pale, blond, and blue-eyed is not wnylib Mar 2022 #4

I had a lot of friends back in Boston who fit exactly that description Warpy Mar 2022 #5

The main reason why European Christians speculated about wnylib Mar 2022 #6

It's a bizarre mindset that I've never really understood Warpy Mar 2022 #7