ABSTRACT
Anthropologists, archeologists, and biologists have considered the similarities in physiognomic type between pure Native Americans and the people who inhabit Mongolia in Central Asia. There are fairly clear dates for the arrival to America of Europeans and Africans. Scholars have tried to connect ancient Egyptian society with ancient American, suggesting that similarities in architectural style must have been transmitted from Egypt to America. Theories abound as to the origins of the first Americans. Yet during the Ice Age, ocean levels were lower. Thus, it is likely that the American and Asian continents were connected by some type of land-bridge that allowed passage over a 90-kilometer distance from Asia to America. The French anthropologist Paul Rivet posited a “multiple-origin” theory, which suggested that America was populated with people from many places, not just Central Asia. He theorized that migratory waves from Australia, Melanesia, Central Asia, and North Alaska arrived, in the order listed over various centuries.
