Did first Americans come from ... Australia?MSNBC -- 9:59 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2004
EXETER, England -
....The claim will be extremely unwelcome to today?s native Americans, who came overland from Siberia and say they were there first.
But Silvia Gonzalez from John Moores University in Liverpool said that skeletal evidence pointed strongly to this unpalatable truth and hinted that recovered DNA would corroborate it.
?This is very contentious,? Gonzalez, a Mexican, said with a smile at the annual meeting of the British association for the Advancement of Science. ?They (native Americans) cannot claim to have been the first people there.?... there was very strong evidence that the first migration came fromAustralia via Japan and Polynesia and down the Pacific Coast of America. ...