Posted on 11/27/2014 11:09:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome.
Based on the arm bone of a 24,000-year-old Siberian youth, the research could uncover new origins for America's indigenous peoples, as well as stir up fresh debate on Native American identities, experts say.
The study authors believe the new study could also help resolve some long-standing puzzles on the peopling of the New World, which include genetic oddities and archaeological inconsistencies
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Wait ‘til the Mormons find out!
So they are evil invaders, too?
If they are America's indigenous people, how is it they came from Siberia?
Now, they've found a bone in Siberia -- and suddenly this changes everything? Now native Americans come from the Middle East and Europe?
What?
So they're... they're... WHITE???
Jeez, and I thought the Millenials delayed adulthood.
"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."
Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."
Ping
um... so basically they walked over the top? makes sense.
it would be fairly easy for a cold climate people with canoes to find their way over the top of the world and move down into Canada. No bearing straight bridge needed.
Modern “Native Americans” obtained title to their land the same way the Whites did - conquest.
Maybe a bit.
Just means that some Europeans and Early Siberian tribes have the same ancestry. Been known for a while.
“Surprise” to whom? Nearly all Native Americans have been thought to descend from the group of people who also produced Europeans and East Asians (about 40,000ya according to Cavalli-Sforza). That’s why they’re intermediate in physical characteristics between those two groups.
Good point, Cowboy Bob. Which means they don’t have clear title to the land either. :)
guess they aren’t any more native than we are.
God bless science. killing political correctness one strike after another.
guess they aren’t any more native than we are.
God bless science. real science, not global warming faux science.
Not all that well-written.
Apparently they found a really old sample from Siberia that has a lot more in common with today’s Europeans than today’s East Asians. Which may just mean that Europe was populated from Siberia or that both were populated from a common source.
They still believe this group is blended with genes similar to those of East Asians. This blending may have occurred in Siberia, in Beringia or after both groups came separately to America.
To a rogue group of archaeologists, this is not a surprise-one of my many cousins is married to one of them-he has said for years that we have been all mixed up over here and every place else because people started traveling and trading with each other as soon as they could make an oar and figured out that a sail caught the wind-we humans are inquisitive, and we were always attracted to new places, people and opportunities.
With all the evidence to support that-some of it going back over 24-25K years, the only ones who don’t understand that the genetic diversity and cultural similarities among ancient peoples show that we’ve always been trading and interbreeding are those in the scientific and cultural communities who cling to that Bering Land Bridge/Native Americans are all of the Asian race theory-even the genetic research doesn’t support that-we’ve been mixed up for 10’s of 1000’s of years...
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