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Hey Mike! I thought Polynesians were Black Asians?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] Polynesian means mixed and most of that mixture came in the last 100 years.[/qb][/QUOTE]Actually Polynesia means 'many islands' not mixed, but you're right that admixture only occurred within the last 100 years and mainly from Europeans. Though it would be a generalization to say most Polynesians are mixed like saying most African Americans are mixed when that is truly not the case. It depends on the island and region. [QUOTE][qb]Note the features in some of these pics strongly resemble some of those from the Olmec sculptures and only points out the fact that such features existed in Asia and traveled to the Americas among the aboriginal populations. [/qb][/QUOTE]Are you saying the Olmecs or other ancient cultures in Meso-America are attributed to Polynesians?? If so this is a first I've heard of this, though I have heard theories of Polynesian presence in South America particularly Peru. In fact anthropological studies show some Peruvian skulls off the coast to possess Polynesian traits. [/qb][/QUOTE]What I meant was that the features in the Pacific derive from a more ancient ancestral set of features found in Asia, including darker skin and prognathism, etc. It is those features that are referred to as being among the features found in the oldest remains from the Americas, which are more similar to Africans, Pacific Islanders and Australian Aborigines. The point being that this ancient population had features converging on African features, which makes sense as all of them ultimately originated in Africa. So I am not talking about specific Polynesian features here in a measured metric sense as opposed to a more general set of features found in Asia among the population ancestral to those in Polynesia which includes the Aborigines of South Asia, Australia, New Guinea, etc. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ancient/luiza.htm As for Polynesia, the term originally referred to all the Pacific islands but was revised to refer to certain islands whose populations were considered "caucasoid" and therefore mixed. This is distinct from places populated by blacks, which is why the term Melanesia was created as a reference to those people. But of course all of these places were originally populated by blacks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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