The first Americans were Black. The oldest human skeleton ever found in the
Americas (a 13500-years-old adult female found in
Brazil) indicates that they
were closely related to
negroid populations of
Africa and
Australia
(
Aborigines). It is unclear whether they travelled by water, cruising from
island to island until they reach
America, or whether they simply split off
from the Aborigine group before they reach Australia, somewhere along their
trip across southern
Asia, and made their way through the
Bering Strait.
We know that
Mongoloid populations (tribes from
Central Asia that later
became what we call "American Indians") crossed the
Bering Strait about 15700
years ago or later, because by that time the
ice barrier that covered the
area began to melt down. Those people are said to belong to the
Clovis
culture, after the city of Clovis, NM, where the first settlements were
discovered. According to
fossil evidence, it seems they entered
South
America about 9000 years ago. What we can say for sure is that they replaced
the previous population in record time, because from 7000 years ago onwards,
all fossils found were unambiguously mongoloid. What happened to the Aborigines
?
The answer can be found on cave paintings across
South America. There,
scientists have found numerous pictures of men, women and animals (not unlike
the ones found in old Australian Aborigine settlements, incidentally).
In several
cases, some of the men pictured on the walls of the cave had intriguing
features that puzzled observers. For lack of a better explaination, they were
thought to be "dancers" celebrating or performing some
ritual dance. But
close re-examination of the pictures (with the help of
computer imagery) led
to the conclusion that these paintings actually depicted scenes of
war, and
that the "dancers" were in fact
warriors fighting each other. One of the men
that was thought to have a "ribbon" sticked to its head was in fact the
representation of a
corpse, and the "ribbon" indicated
blood pouring from his head. A striking
aspect of these scenes of war is that they all seem to have been made over a relatively short
period of time, that seems to fit pretty well within the time frame of the
mongoloid invasion. The
violence depicted in this paintings reflects the
fact that the
invaders from the North wiped the Aborigine population out of existence in a
matter of centuries. Those obscure cave paintings represent what can be seen
as the first
documented
genocide in History.