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There are three theories on the first humans in Guyana

Mar 30, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to a letter in Kaieteur News, March 29 issue, entitled: “My country’s history needs to be told” that endorses a letter in the Stabroek News, March 25 issue, entitled: “Amerindians were not the first people on the continent.” There are three theories of how the first people came to Guyana.
The first is that Guyanese Amerindians were the first people on earth: Two men Makonaima and Pia and two women Mazaruni and Cuyuni left their homeland called the Place of the Sun through a hole on a ladder leading down into Earth. Makonaima married Mazaruni and Pia married Cuyuni and their descendants populated the Earth. http://guyanachronicle.com/preserving-our-literary-heritage-amerindian-folklore-tales-of-makonaimas-children-by-henry-josiah/
The second, validated by human DNA variations, says that humans developed in sub-saharan Africa from early primates about 200,000 years ago, with some immigrating about 60,000 years ago to Yemen in middle Asia. Descendants of these early immigrants moved to South Asia about 50,000 years ago, Europe about 30,000 years ago and Central and East Asia 20,000 years ago. These immigrants evolved different physical appearances to maximize survival in the  environmental conditions they encountered. Descendants of the Central Asian immigrants migrated to the Americas, populating all of South America about 10,000 years ago. https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/
The third is that all people on earth are descendants of Noah’s three sons (Shem, Japhet and Ham) who went to the Middle East, Europe and Africa after the great biblical flood about 5,000 years ago. http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2005/12/11/A-Universal-Flood-3000-BC.aspx
Except for the third theory which makes no mention of South America, it is absurd to say ”Amerindians were not the first people on the continent.”
Kingsley Harrop

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