[Peabelilt]

Meaning it was possible for human life to sustain a living on the continent, how do you think the people would look? It would still be a colder climate, but not nearly as cold of course. Do you think they would look and be a new racial classification? How do you think the cultures would be like?

[RadcliffXX]

Meaning it was possible for human life to sustain a living on the continent, how do you think the people would look? It would still be a colder climate, but not nearly as cold of course. Do you think they would look and be a new racial classification? How do you think the cultures would be like?

Could be anything. I'm sure you're aware that it used to be inhabitable. They could be a seperate race if they were isolated enough from their origins. If, however, you mean they were isolated, they could be adapted to seasonal cold and would have an oceanic diet.

I suppose they could look like large eskimid types. As far as a new racial classification, most likely.

[Corporal White]

The closest people in theory would probably be these folks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaghan

[gDGwm8BC]

Meaning it was possible for human life to sustain a living on the continent, how do you think the people would look? It would still be a colder climate, but not nearly as cold of course. Do you think they would look and be a new racial classification? How do you think the cultures would be like?

it depends on which subrace would have collonised it, but the probable thing is that they would eventualy start looking like mongoloids cause they are best fitted to survive in colder climates.

[squicscor]

if they ate only fish then they would not become pale

[KinicsBonee]

could you see any advanced civilizations and empires?

[baxodrom]

could you see any advanced civilizations and empires?

For having a civilization you would first have to have agriculture. And in a very cold climate I can only imagine hunter-gatherers.

[KixdricyArrip]

not really, as there is very few resources there and no real contact with the rest of the world. the climate is too harsh, they would be too focused on basic survival to take the time to settle down. that instability works against them being able to build up any great civilizations.

[outfinofulpv]

Did these Southern Patagonians look like Northern Hemiphisphere Inuit types?

[TodeImmabbedo]

The Yaghans would have had to wear clothes in the Antarctic:

It's fantastic that they never wore clothes, it can get pretty damned cold in Tierra del Fuego.

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Instead of clothes, the Yamana rubbed themselves in fish and seal oil. This did give some protection but also made their personal smell something of an acquired taste for outsiders.The oil also covered one of the world's most astonishing human adaptations. An average citizen of the world today - however heavily smeared all over with fish oil - would survive only briefly in a Fuegian Winter and would have serious problems even at the height of southern Summer. The Yamana did not only survive, stark naked most of the time, but they thrived. There is only one explanation for this remarkable aptitude: they must have lived in the area for sugh a long time (mopre than ten thousand years) that they had time to develop a genetic adaption to cold. To do so needsss time and the Yamana must have been under severe evolutionary pressure. Why they did not go the quicker and simpler way of using animal skins like the Ona we shall probably never know. The Fuegian's is the only such adaptiation known among Homo sapiens.. Neanderthal man (who thrived in the Eurasian ice age) may have developed a similar genetic method to trick their even nastier climate. Link with more information and pictures!:
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter5...ext-Yamana.htm

[iH1wMOhE]

The Yaghans were killed mainly by Croats..

[jamisi]

The Yaghans were killed mainly by Croats..

No, those were the Selknam (Onas), the Yagans saved themselves because they lived in a place that wasn't settled. Now only people related to the military live there.

The died mostly because of diseases.

[Deengealf]

They would definitely have to have had some survival technology like the Inuits had. I can only imagine Inuits as the kind of people who could survive there. Living on Penguins and seals. I think the environment would be very fragile, and they could quickly exterminate the pinguins who overwinter there, and that would make it hard to survive the winter. Maybe they could depend on frozen caches they build up during the summer? I'm not sure whether hunter gatherers could survive at all. I think perhaps the weather is just too harsh and cold. They would also have to be able to make fire without wood somehow.

[Battwenue]

Meaning it was possible for human life to sustain a living on the continent, how do you think the people would look? It would still be a colder climate, but not nearly as cold of course. Do you think they would look and be a new racial classification? How do you think the cultures would be like?

Depends on who settles there. If it was like Alaska then they would be just like the Inuit.