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The belief that one's ancestors are "racially uniform" is a basic American fiction, Stuckert wrote, but a fiction nonetheless.
Some analysts argued that the research supports two politically important theories: 1) Humans have had so little time to diverge genetically that the differences between human "races" are trivial, and 2) our common ancestors came from Africa (Cro-Magnons) and drove the Europeans (Neanderthals) to extinction.
These people’s ancestors arrived in Central America many thousands of years ago.
Little is recorded about this group, but they were probably the ancestors of the Gododdin, whose feats are told in a seventh-century Old Welsh manuscript.
He refers to a modern Aztec calendar as a Pochteca calendar, which features wisdom from the “wise guy ancestors of the modern day Pocha and Pocho.”