The World of Emperor Gon of Carthage
"The Aborigines"
Emperor Gon of Carthage
July 30, 2001
The Aborigines
Part 9
Robust and delicate types
It is known that there were two types of ancient populations in Australia. Skeletons recovered from the area called Lake Mungo were very slim with modern features. The thickness of their skull, in particular, was very thin and slim compared to contemporary Aborigines. Its developed frontal bones, round crania and small teeth are features more modern than those of the Aborigines.
In contrast the skeletons recovered in Kow Swamp had strongly built structures with receding frontal brows, prominent brow-ridges, thick crania with marked alveolar prognathism and large teeth, many of them typical of archaic Homo sapiens.
However, while the modern-like population of Lake Mungo can be traced back more than 60,000 years, one of Kow Swamp that feature primitive characteristics are of the population that looks to be 13,000 years to 6,500 years old.
In other words, in Australia, the most archaic population was the most modern-like population, contrary to the general understanding.
As long as these facts are considered, the theory claiming modern population that evolved in Africa had displaced and eventually replaced the primitive population cannot stand.
These facts, however, had been nearly ignored ever since the appearance of mitochondrial theory and the DNA appraisal of the Neanderthals.
In November 2000, Peter Underhill and others of Stanford University announced their recent research on the Y chromosomes of modern men. The DNA of the Y chromosomes, unlike mitochondrial DNA, are only inherited from father to son, and accordingly, attracts the researchers as the new research method. Underhill's group gathered Y chromosomes of more than 1000 men from 22 different areas, and analyzed their DNA using the newest methods. And they concluded that the origin of modern men could be traced back 59,000 years to Africa.
The same research group, however, also conducted a research on mitochondrial DNA and concluded that modern men originated in Africa some 143,000 years ago. This origin based on mitochondrial DNA reconfirmed previous research results. But considering the difference of 84,000 years between the common ancestors of paternal line and of the maternal line, we can't help but doubt the reliability of such research methods.
Translated by Rie Ishida
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