Have been believed to have crossed over the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska, and on down to the "lower 48", etc.

I heard on the radio today that there is evidence to suggest that the first "native Americans", predating the "Alaskan Migration", actually came from ... Australia.  It appears that DNA testing of remains in Southern California tends to support a commonality of characteristics with Australian aborigines.  Early Spansih writings tell of a people/tribe with physical characteristics significantly different to the other "Indians" then in the area.  Those people, however, died out early on due to illnesses and absorption into the overall population.

Well we all started in Africa, then as we grew many of us humans moved on and into various different locations.  It is believed that the Native Americans came from over the Bering Strait (ie Russia) and colonised Northern America, then moved down into the US.  I don't see why the Australian Aborignes would not have tried to venture out to sea and find other places.  It is only humans natural sense to venture into new territory.

Humans all came from coloured skin, it was only when we moved up further North our skin became lighter.

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Tet tet.  The early inhabitants of Australia migrated there from southern Asia or somewhere nearby...

  Has anyone out there ever heard of Kenawick(sp) Man?  Several years ago a human skull was found along the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State.  The skull predated the arrival of "Native" Americans to the New World and was said to have "caucasian" features.  Not only that, there have been atleast two other skulls found in North America that have the same features as Kenawick(sp) Man.
  There has been much made about the "caucasian" features of these skulls and that perhaps the first settlers of the New World may have came form Europe.  Its now believed that these first settlers were of early Asian stalk, migrating to North America via the Bering Straits long before "Native" Americans came across.  What would become "Native" Americans came across in a second migration and "pushed" out the first migrators as they spread out across the New World.

We all know that there are three main races. Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid. They come from Europe, Africa, and Asia respectively. It isn't possible that early Americans came from Australia simply due to their features, at least not when it comes to North Americans. It has been a topic of discussion in every North American history class I've taken. There are two theories. Boats or land bridge. The land bridge theory seems most likely because crossing the Pacific at that time period would have proved extreamly difficult (although not impossible) for the primitive marine technology of the time.

The North American "Indian" or "Amerindian" (which is the term historians use) probably came from East Asia, most likely from Siberia or Mongolia. Most North American natives have strong Mongoloid features. Some of these features have faded in many due to being isolated from the master race but are still present.

Australian Aboriginese on the other hand tend to have more Negroid features and even some Caucasoid features. I know hardly anything on Australian history but judging by appearance, they probably originated in Africa. Crossing the Middle-East and making there way down into French-Indo-China and down into Australia. From what I've seen on TV, Southern Aboriginese are lighter in colour with more caucasoid features. This would suggest that they were making the evolutionary transition to make them more suited for a cooler climate. This would also suggest that they've been in Australia for a very long time.

The Kenawick Man is something I've never heard of but it can be explained. We know that Columbus wasn't the first European to discover the New World. He's just the one who takes credit for it. It has been documented that the Vikings once inhabited Labrador and Newfoundland as early as 1100 AD. Russia also had interests in the America. They had claimed the entire west coast of North America from Alaska to Oragon before they were pushed out by other settlers in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. This included British Columbia and Washington. Unfortunately we can only guess at how that man got there over 30,000 years ago. We still have trouble figuring things out that happened a mere 2000 years ago.

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Exactly & extremely well put. Come up with a new theory & get a grant for further research - ad infinitum. The beauty of this system is that nobody can ever prove or disprove the theory.

I've been a confirmed cynic on all this theoretical nonsense since "Piltdown Man" was discovered to be a hoax. Piltdown is a small village in Sussex not far from where I live. This "missing link in evolution" was presented as fact in the history text books all the time I was at school. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/03/piltdown_man/html/default.stm
Once the hoax was uncovered the text books had to be withdrawn & rewritten. Since then I need absolute proof before I believe any of these unconfirmed theories.