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Palaeolithic era
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian (39.73 N 115.92 E) Beijing China
A deeper look at Peking Man site on the outskirts of Beijing was discovered in the 1920s and has yielded prolific fossil remains of the archaic human species Homo erectus, dated to approximately 500,000 years ago.
The World Heritage Site, which is in Beijing's southwestern suburbs, holds the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human beings and is known as the only site of continuous habitation by our early ancestors from between 700,000 and 10,000 years ago. Peking Man is believed to have lived about 600,000 to 700,000 years ago. The Zhoukoudian site holds the richest remains of prehistoric man in the world.
The flute's makers lived in the Upper Palaeolithic era of the last ice age when Europe was occupied simultaneously by the last Neanderthals and the first modern humans.
Found in Vero Beach Florida 2009. A 15-inch-long prehistoric bone fragment contains a crude engraving of a mammoth or mastodon on it, said Barbara Purdy, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. "It is humbling to realize that we are seeing what the hunter saw more than 13,000 years ago," Purdy said. If so, it appears to be "the oldest, most spectacular and rare work of art in the Americas," she wrote in a report to other scientists. "There is nothing else like it," a piece of art dating to around the end of the last Ice Age in the New World, said Steven Holen, curator of paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. "It is one of the most spectacular finds in American archaeology in recent history."
Venus of the Hohle Fels, Nicholas Conrad with 35,000 Year Old Ancient Figurine Art
Neolithic Age Origin of China People
To sum up, since the Neolithic Age there have existed three main archaeological cultures and ethnic systems in China. They were the Yangshao culture of the Di-Qiang ethnic system in the Central Plains, the Qingliangang culture of the Pu-Yue ethnic system in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtse River and along the Southeast coastline, and the Microlithic Culture of the Hu ethnic peoples. Through contacts and interfusions together during a long period of time, the three archaeological cultures and ethnic systems constituted the basis of the unified and multi-ethnic Chinese nation and its traditional culture.
It is common knowledge that the main body of Chinese culture is the ethnic Han culture, also known as Huaxia culture. The birthplace of the Han culture is the loess valleys in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, including the valleys of its big tributaries such as Fenhe, Weihe, Jinghe, Luohe, and Qinhe. Here is the distribution center of the remains or relics of the Yangshao culture of painted pottery. Seen from an archaeological angle, the ancient culture of the Chinese nation was formed and developed on the base of the Huaxia ethnic group whose representative was the Miaodigou culture. "Miaodigou clan cultural community was the organic heart of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation." Its formation and development center was the Central Plains or the Yellow River valley.
Professor Xu Zhongshu made a textual search and proved that the ethnic Xia in the Central Plains had a close relationship in history with the Hu in the north, Yue in the south, and Di-Qiang in the west. He said that during the Xia and Shang dynasties a part of the ethnic Xia migrated to the north and later became the Xiongnu people (or Huns), a part of the ethnic Xia migrated to the south of the Yangtse River and later became the Yue people. The Qiang in the west had even closer relationship with ethnic Xia. According to Professor Xu, the main tribes of the Xia Dynasty were the Qiang.".
Gujaratis in India
In terms of ancestry, the majority of Gujaratis share many similar genes with other northern Indian populations, but also show a significant relationship with west Eurasian groups. A 2004 Stanford study conducted with a wide sampling from India, found that over 33% of genetic markers in Gujarat were of West Asian origin, the third highest amongst the sampled group of South Asians with only the Punjabis peaking at 42% and Sindhis at 41%.
A migration of humans from Eurasia
There are several popular models of migration to the New World proposed by the Anthropology community. The question of how, when and why humans first entered the Americas is of intense interest to anthropologists and has been a subject of heated debate for centuries.
Eurasia is a large landmass covering about 53,990,000 km or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface . Often considered a single continent, Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia, concepts which date back to classical antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary. Migration to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge.
A land bridge, in biogeography, is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, which allows terrestrial animals and plants to cross over and colonise new lands which formerly connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait.
The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the easternmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point of the North American continent, with latitude of about 65 or 40' north, slightly south of the polar circle. The minimum time depth by which this migration had taken place is confirmed at c. 12,000 years ago, with the upper bound (or earliest period) remaining a matter of some unresolved contention. These early Paleoamericans soon spread throughout the Americas, diversifying into many hundreds of culturally distinct nations and tribes. According to the oral histories of many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, they have been living there since their genesis, described by a wide range of traditional creation accounts.
a little walk around the world.
Where did the First Nation American Indians come from?
Basically you have China people walking and traveling out of Mongolia into Russia, then crossing on over into Alaska where then settle down.
Proof - People Travel and Bring Their Music Proof
Music is Language - Language is Music
Inner Mongolia Throat Singers - Listen
Heroic Folksongs from six Mongolian Vigilantes " HANGGAI"
Also reviewed hear 3 more songs.Alaska Throat Singers
Inuit Throat Singing: Kathy Keknek and Janet Aglukkaq
Then the Chinese now called First Nation People, Native Americans, Indians, or Native Alaskan people pick up and travel on into Canada and settlle down for a time, but of course these same people decide to walk right into America and spread out from the east coast down to Florida, to the west coast of California and all over the middle of the U.S. China People aka First Nation American Indian people are the same people.
Compare and Stare
PEOPLE - First Nation People have been in North America for probably 16,000 years
Scientific evidence links Native American populations to Asia and eastern Siberia populations. American Indians resemble some Asian populations in outward appearance, in the distribution of blood group types, and in genetic composition as reflected by molecular data, such as DNA (Cordell, Paleoamericans).
At the end of the last Ice Age (late Pleistocene period), lowering sea levels created a land mass between Siberia and Alaska. The 580,000 square mile land mass was called Beringia...an area about twice the size of Texas. A land bridge fifty-five mile long connected Siberia and North America for approximately 3500 years. Radiocarbon dating by Dr. Scott Elias, at the University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, has shown that lowering sea levels created this land bridge about 14,000 B.C. and by 10,500 B.C., rising sea water had submerged the Beringia land bridge beneath the Bering Strait. Based on plant life from sea-core samples, Dr. Ellis believes the area was covered with tundra plants and shrubs rather than an arid grassland. His findings would indicate Beringia was unsuitable for extended habitation by large grazing animals.
Compare their hair, their faces, their eyes, the dress, costumes, the jewelry, the stories, the MUSIC ! Just look compare and stare you will see it for yourself. Just because no one ever taught you this in school doesn't make it untrue. It just shows you how ignorant most people are about the BIG PICTURE. That's why we love the Educational CyberPlayGround and the Interdisciplinary stories we tell.
It's the Lunar Calendar Culture
the Chinese talk about the “woman on the moon”. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiu Jie (traditional Chinese: 中秋節), is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty.
First Nation People
In America ALASKA
If you know that the United States has signed treaties with the First Nation People aka. Indian Tribes giving them soverignty over their own land, and government you will realize that they do not operate within the same framwork of laws as the rest of the American people. The challenge has always been how to organize, absorb and unify all these different independant nations into an "American Society" of people who identify themselves as Americans.
Now if you think about it - China has the same situation. China is a large country noted for its dense population and vast territory. There are 55 minority ethnic groups (Tribes) aka (Independent Nations) in addition to the Han who represent 92% of the population. The defining elements of an ethnic group are language, homeland, and social values. 53 minority ethnic groups use spoken languages of their own; 23 minority ethnic groups have their own written languages.
Chinese Languages - American Indian Languages
Amer-Ind Gestural Code Based on Universal American Indian Hand gestures. language is gesturally based, or an extension of gestural code and not a language in the sense of that used by humans.
Zuni Language Synopsis
The Zuni, or Shiwi language, is now generally considered a language isolate. The Zuni Enigma, by Nancy Yaw Davis offers a comparative of cognates between the Zuni language and another language isolate; the Japanese language. While speculative [Zuni Enigma (Listen to the controversy in RealAudio)], it demonstrates a likeness between the Zuni and Japanese languages that may be more compelling than that of the Penutian Hypothesis.
Life Lessons Learned by hearing the stories. All of history is one long story. History is nothing more than story telling. Traditionally, memory-aiding symbols and pictures were inscribed on birch bark to preserve the stories and songs, because the Ojibwe had no written language. Native Languages Bill goes live 2006. Ojibwe Scrolls Come Full Circle.
Last inheritress of China's female-specific languages dies 9/2304
CHANGSHA, (Xinhuanet) -- China's last inheritress of the
mysterious Nushu language, probably the world's only female-specific
language, died at her central China home earlier this week. She was in
her 90s.
WOMEN IN POWER 500-750 Female leaders and women in other positions of political authority of independent states and self-governing understate entities.
Anthropology in China By Gregory Eliyu Guldin anthropological science emerged in China during the 1930's.
American First Nation Languages
Find the interesting facts that explore the First Nation People's Words from Linguists. (1607). Two modern accounts -- one by Captain John Smith and the other by the Jamestown colony secretary, William Strachey -- preserved some Virginia Algonquian words. Of the more than 15 original Algonquian languages in eastern North America, the two still spoken are Passamaquoddy-Malecite in Maine and Mikmaq in New Brunswick.
sumanitu taka owaci
literally translated : wolf dance with
The term "Sioux," short for "nadouessioux" or "little snakes," actually came from the Chippewa, a longtime foe. Over the years, it has been widely adopted. However, the people of the Great Sioux Nation prefer to be called Dakota, Lakota or Nakota, according to their language group. The cast, including Mr. Costner, was given a three-week cram course in Lakota, the language of the Sioux, by Doris Leader Charge, an instructor at Sinte Gelska College on the Rosebud Reservation in Rapid City, S. D. About 30 percent of the dialogue is in Lakota, much of it subtitled. Ms. Leader Charge, who was cast in the film, also had to translate the screenplay into Lakota for accuracy.
Drumkeeper Ojibwe medicine men -- said the scrolls depicted ceremonial songs; concerning the most fundamental laws and needs of the Ojibwe First Nation people.
Drum Towers of Dong Ethnic, Guizhou, China Dong resembles a fir tree, a sacred tree in Dong Culture. People often gather there in the evenings, to listen to traditional folk songs. After harvests, young people hold festive dances on the grounds surrounding the drum tower. The outline of a Dong drum tower resembles a fir tree, a sacred tree in Dong culture. Some anthropologists have suggested that the Dong people used to be treedwellers, since they are believed to be a branch of the ancient Yue people, a treedwelling tribe.
First Nation 21st-century Skywalkers Native Americans began working iron in 1886 the Grand Trunk Railway wanted to build the Victoria Bridge and it would span the mighty St. Lawrence River and connect Montreal to the Kahnawake Reserve. Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River onto tribal land required hiring men from the Kahnawake Reservation.
"Even young Native children became curious and soon they were climbing all over the span, right alongside the men. The workers noticed that the Mohawk's agility, grace and sense of balance made it seem as though they had a natural disposition for heights."
When management became aware of this, they hired and trained a dozen tribal members as ironworkers. The original twelve, all teenagers, were so adept at working at high altitudes, they were known as the 'Fearless Wonders'. They would walk on narrow beams several hundred feet above the raging river and yet it appeared as though they were just on a casual walk along a forest path. The Mohawk ironworkers used their native language and sign language while they riveted steel beams, high up on bridges and skyscrapers. In their book 'This Land was Theirs' (1999), Oswalt and Neely state, "Some outsiders have suggested that an absence of fear of height was inborn, but it seem more likely that the trait was learned".
Members of the Iroquois Nation also worked on nearly all New York's towering buildings, including the Empire State, Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center.
For more than 100 years, Mohawk people have taken part in the seemingly superhuman task of building skyscrapers and bridges throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad.
Domain Traders 米农 (mi nong)
People tend to use "corn" to mean "domain" on the Internet since the Chinese term "yuming" (domain) is pronounced similar to "yumi" (corn). Those registrants who hold popular domain names until their values increase are compared to corn farmers taking good care of their crops.
First Nation OJIBWE HISTORY (Minong the good place in Ojibwe, the name for Isle Royale)
The Ojibwe were the largest and most powerful Great Lakes tribe; perhaps the most powerful east of the Mississippi; and quite possibly the most powerful in North America. Ojibwe and Chippewa are not only the same tribe, but the same word pronounced a little differently due to accent. As the Chippewa, they signed more treaties with the United States than any other tribe fifty-one! Anishinaabe or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek (which is the plural form of the word) is a self-description often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonkin peoples, who all speak closely-related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe languages.
The definition of the term "Anishnaabeg" is First- or Original-Peoples. Another possible definition refers to "the good humans", or good people, that are on the right road/path given to them by the Creator or gitchi-manitou (Anishinaabeg term for God). mandaamin = corn
The related Algonquian languages were among the first in America to die out. No one is known to have spoken Virginia Algonquian since 1785. Like many other Indians, Algonquian speakers had no writing system, and their grammar and most of their vocabulary were lost.
Of the more than 15 original Algonquian languages in eastern North America, the two still spoken are Passamaquoddy-Malecite in Maine and Mikmaq in New Brunswick. ~ Fewkes, Jesse Walter,
Like most of the 800 or more indigenous languages in North America, Virginia Algowhen became extinct as Indians declined in number, dispersed and lost their cultural identity due to European Invasion. At least half the world's estimated 6,000 languages have so few remaining speakers that they are threatened with extinction. By 2100, it's believed less than 3,000 languages will survive.
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Chinese Porcelain and Hopi Pottery ; Designs on prehistoric Hopi Pottery Indian pottery -- PDF 810 pages N.A.; 33rd rpt, Bur. of Ethnology, Smithsonian, 1911-1 1919 Wash.
Pictures of China only 100 years ago
and the Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927
The Chinese invention of moveable type, is credited to Bi Sheng in the year 1045 AD way before Guttenberg ever printed a bible