So where did the seals come from?
The Inuit came from Africa via India (possibly) and NE Asia. At which point are you saying they *must* have acquired a mainly meat diet and why *must* that have been in the last 10,000 years? You're probably right but you're not supplying the evidence. I buttume that, in an Ice Age, the seals would be in open water further south. Do you know that the Inuit (or their ancestors) weren't enjoying a seal diet along the East coastline of Asia? Or eating other meat?
My reading on the subject has concentrated on Europe and the Levant so if you can add to that knowledge with info about mtDNA (A) and Y-DNA (N & Q) people then I'd be happy. I simply cannot understand how the female line* is 100% the same for the Greenland Eskimos - and with the same line predominating in the Chukchi in NE Siberia, and Na-Dene and Amerinds in Canada, whilst the male line shares the same Q Y-gene with Amerinds throughout the Americas yet it's the N haplogroup that dominates in NE Siberia. Do you reckon this is a low sample artefact or what?
*Taken from JD McDonald (2005) MtDNA and Y-DNA maps of the world. www.scs.uiuc.edu-~mcdonald-WorldHaplogroupsMaps.pdf
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