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They note the longstanding claim of ethnic Albanians to the territory of Kosovo dating back to 1200 B.C., when the Albanians' supposed ancestors, the Illyrians, settled there.
Paleoanthropologist Ralph Holloway (Columbia University, New York, United States) uses endocasts to look for macroscopic differences in the brains of our human ancestors.
They use the same tools and methods as their ancestors, and demonstrate the same skills.
Genaro Padilla refers to her writing as “folkloric autobiography,” a significant genre, since it is one of the few kinds of writing by Hispanos that depicts the life they either experienced or learned from their ancestors at the turn of the century.
Imagine how they'd feel if tests revealed their ancient ancestors were white men . Worse, imagine how Ken Burns would feel.