Re: Nostratic's New Guinea Home

From: tgpedersen
Message: 13608
Date: 2002-05-02

--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:
> "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> <<Aha! Oho! Sundaland! Floods! Disasters! I told you so! (and
annoying etc
> etc)>>
>
> Looking at the Underhill tree again, I see just how old the
underived 09
> mutation (haplotype 87) may be. It is a mere 5 mutations from
the "non-human
> primate" root. Two generations back its predecessor is the founder
node for
> 80% of all Underwood's groups (e.g., about 80% of the variation in
all modern
> human males) and which supposedly "marks the expansion of
anatomically
> modern humans out of Africa."
>
> 09 itself generated about 40% of all such variations in modern
human males.
>
> So the Underhill's "New Guinea" mutation looks like it is way, way
back
> there. We are given a wide range of dates for all this -- 35,000BP
to 89,000
> BP-- and Underhill's estimate is relatively recent for these kinds
of
> estimates. If we send 09 half-way back and do use Underhill's
dates (?),
> then the original 09 mutation would date at 18,000BP - 44,000BP --
average it
> to about 31,000BP. This would put it about 20,000 years before the
end of
> the ice age and maybe 15,000 years before there were such a thing
as a modern
> Steppe climate. And 23,000 years before the first farmers and
about 20,000
> years before the disappearance of the sabre-tooth tiger and the
mastodon.
>
> So I would imagine that there wouldn't be too much memory left of
all this.
>
>
> Steve

Of the mutation, no. But as has been pointed out several times etc,
etc; in other words, did the backwash occur immediately after the
mutation; they might have waited some ten thousands of years?
Which reminds me: for them to go backwards, covering their own
tracks, for their own safety, they would have needed a boat,
considering that on the way out they were a beach-combing, hence
beach-hugging species.

Speaking of which, the casual depiction of Bering Strait crossers
traveling across a Bering Strait bridge by foot, baggage in hand,
annoys me. Being Danish, you know a little about conditios in
Greenland, which would be similar in climate and geography; only a
narrow strip of land along the coast is ice-free. Still today, there
are no roads there, if you move, you do it by boat in summer, by dog-
sleigh in winter, across the sea-ice across fjords. You don't walk;
that's suicide. They have a word, qivitoq, for someone who has lost
it and has walked into the fjeld (Danish: rocks, mountains).

Torsten