Festival of San Francisco – Panajachel, Guatemala
Festival of San Franciso – Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
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what colorful clothing! these people look very unmixed. What do you think about the theory that Mayans and Native Americans descended from Siberia? Supposedly Mayans and Native Americans have Mongoloid traits but some scholars list them as a different race altogether, you know apart from Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid. I can see similarites but all humans have similarites, at the same time I do see Mongoloid features in them, they just may have evolved differently as the time passed. I’m curious to what you think.
BTW the lady in Pic number 5 scares me…
Hi Jimmy
Native Americans by most accepted accounts seen to have originated from Asia, as long as 20,000 years ago via an ice-bridge from Siberia to Alaska. Other scholars think they may have sailed the Pacific to California.
All said, the similarites of Maya, Inca, Native Americans to Asians is very compelling: Tibetans really look like Bolivians, and both share the same high altitude existance.
As for Mongolians – generally, they tend to have rounder faces and high cheekbones but as there is no definitive history on this subject, as of yet, every theory is open to possibility …
Bottom line: If one goes back far enough we are all from Africa, and go even further back – we are descended … from Apes (religious people say no to that evolution, however …)