Sorry, Charley, but "Caucasian" DOES mean "white people." The residents of the Caucasus mountains are all "white." The story -- most probably apocryphal -- goes that the German scientist who invented the term "Caucasian" to designate the white race was in love with a woman from the region, so named the white race in her honor.
The Russians, bless their prejudiced little hearts, call Caucasians (from the mountains) "blacks," which serves to confuse the issue still further.
What's interesting (and this is why the Native Americans are trying to literally bury this archeological find) is that over 200 bone position markers indicate that this man was not American Indian, racially. The features are all wrong. More like Mongolian (the term Caucasian is used, but that doesn't mean White people - it means like people of the Caucasus' Mountains of Western Asia.)
One more point: the Caucasus range divides Europe & Asia; the northern slopes are in Europe, the southern slopes (the Transcaucasus) are in Asia.
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And aren't American Indians supposed to be Mongolian by origin, anyway? Whatever happened to the theory that they migrated from Asia, before the continents were separated?
Eskimos are certainly American Indians; and right across the straits, in present-day Russia, there are ethnic groups that are practically identical, both linguistically and racially, to North American Eskimos. |
