>>3. 5,000-3,000 BCE crossing of Innuit people, from Bering strait
>>islands, creating the Thule culture up along the Alaskan Northern >>
>>Coast and East to Greenland.
>It seems to me that Big Game Hunters as a part of the Old World 2nd >wave
>and Na-Dene as a part of the 3rd wave look much more natural (even if this
>can force us to modify a really beautiful scheme).
It forces us into an impossible and non-mainstream scheme. How could the
Na-Dene be possibly the 3rd Wave at 5000-3000 BCE? This is exactly what we
should expect for the date of the EskimoAleut crossing. This would then
imply that the EskimoAleut and the Na-Dene went together at a late age which
is purposterous. Just looking at the linguistic spread of North America will
tell you what happened and in what order. The Na-Dene would have had to come
in first, with the EskimoAleut later, capping over the northern areas.
We can't explain the deviation seen in Na-Dene languages (Haida to Navajo)
as being simply a 5-7,000 year split. We aren't talking about the
IndoEuropean languages here. There's fair amount of variation amongst them
and some people have trouble connecting Haida with the Na-Dene languages.
- gLeN
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