[Nahuat-l] Bizarre sentence

[Joseph Burch]

A quick Google on "nahuatl siberia" turned up the following article 
containing references to "Ixachilan":

http://nahuatl.info/research/genetics.htm

An interesting article but, alas, one contaminated by political bias.

Joe Burch

Frances Karttunen wrote:
> On p. 157 in a volume titled Human Origins by Rob DeSalle and Ian 
> Tattersall, beginning a section titled "The New World: But Not the 
> Newest," Al came across the following assertion:
>
> "Many ancient h/omo sapiens /from Asia apparently discovered that the 
> Bering Strait was an important barrier between them and a landmass of 
> which they knew little.  The Nahuatl people of Siberia even had a word 
> for the Western Hemisphere, 'Ixachilan.'"
>
> ??????
>
> Fran
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