Posted on 05/15/2014 11:37:31 AM PDT by Theoria
Remains Found in Mexico Connect Earliest Settlers With Continent's Natives
She was just a teenager when she died alone in the dark.
The scientists who analyzed her bones said Thursday that she is the oldest nearly complete, genetically intact human skeleton in the New World. Her remains—discovered deep within a flooded cave in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula—cement the connection between the earliest settlers of the Americas and modern Native Americans.
A unique genetic marker exhumed from her 12,000-year-old skeleton offers evidence that the first hunter-gatherers who crossed the Bering Sea from northeast Asia on a now-submerged territory called Beringia belonged to the same population group as many Native Americans today, the scientists said.
"It is a lineage we see across the Americas," said anthropologist Deborah Bolnick of the University of Texas at Austin, who helped analyze maternal DNA extracted from a tooth taken from the skeleton.
The international team of 16 anthropologists, geneticists, and cave divers reported their findings Thursday in the journal Science.
If confirmed by additional research, the bones of a girl who long ago lost her way may help settle an emotionally charged debate that has raged among scholars for a century over the origins of the people who settled the New World and the identity of their descendants today. Other theories have held that the earliest settlers may have come from the South Pacific by boat or paddled across the Atlantic from Spain.
"This is one step toward resolving this question," said James Chatters, owner of Applied Paleoscience, an archaeological-consulting firm in Bothell, Wash., who led the research project.
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> A unique genetic marker exhumed from her 12,000-year-old skeleton offers evidence that the first hunter-gatherers who crossed the Bering Sea from northeast Asia on a now-submerged territory called Beringia belonged to the same population group as many Native Americans today...
Meaning that the 30,000 year old human activity in South America shows that the first (known) Americans spread north and across the Bering Sea into Asia. See, that’s how ya do that.
Such a brilliant conclusion these scientists have come to. For most of us I believe this revelation simple deserves the comment, “No sh.t Sherlock.”
‘She came across that land bridge from China so you know where the batteries were made. ;-)’
LOL. I see you have used them too.
The skeleton is but one data point. It does not exclude other origins. To assume a linearity of all populations is fallacious.
By that definition there are no native humans outside Africa. This girl is from a population of humans who migrated to the New World and evolved into various peoples. By my definition that’s about as native as you get.
BTW - Pliestocene Europeans didn’t look like modern Euros either.
14 different Temples® have had proxy baptisms for this person.
SLC is just SURE that he(?) has accepted it's offer!
DNA proving she(?) was Jewish...
A unique genetic marker exhumed from her 12,000-year-old skeleton offers evidence that the first hunter-gatherers who crossed the Bering Sea from northeast Asia on a now-submerged territory called Beringia belonged to the same population group as many Native Americans today, the scientists said.
I WAS ready to jump in; after reading the title; then wavered over choosing Hillary, but decided she wasn't QUITE dead yet.
Also some matrons...
Is it possible....
This just in:
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Could it be???
Post Hole Diggers?
Piled Higher & Deeper?
Just because she came from Siberia doesn’t mean no one from anywhere else came to the Americas. Sheesh.
Mitochondrial (mtDNA) = D1 in this case. For reference and for anyone interested. I am going to look to see if I have any (distant) cousins who have it (I am not kidding). I do genealogy and have had my DNA tested. It is VERY hard to find/get samples for American Indians, apparently, because of cultural reasons etc.
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