On Mar 29, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> My question was not about whether there was traffic across the
> Bering Straight, but whether that traffic was more than the
> traffic between Africa and Europe, which, if I'm not mistaken,
> was substantial. Ever since the Phoenicians dominated the
> Mediterranean Sea, there was lots of traffic between Africa
> and Europe ... more than between Alaska and Siberia.

I was basing the claim on the racial similarities of the Inuit
and siberian natives (whereas I didn't think there was much
african heritage to European natives) but I guess there's a
fallacy involved there (or several!)
That could be more related to a difficulty in TRAVELING BACK;
the difference between colonization and mere commerce...

BillW
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