This Man’s DNA Is the Oldest in North America

LiveScience ^ | 4/28/2020 | Laua Geggel

[SteveH]

A Native American man in Montana has what may be the oldest DNA native to the Americas, according to news reports.

After getting his DNA tested, Darrell "Dusty" Crawford learned that his ancestors were already in the Americas about 17,000 years ago, according to the Great Falls Tribune, a Montana newspaper.

[PIF]

Then there are the 160,000 sites in California and in South America ...

[centurion316]

When I studied anthropology in the 80’s the “settled Science claimed the earliest north Americans could be no earlier than 11.5 thousand yrs bp.

This was based on Clovis artifacts and the known age of the ice free corridor leading from Alaska down to the lower 48. Since then, well documented sites of early man that pre-date Clovis have been found and confirmed. When I started studying Geology, continental drift had just moved from the conjecture to the most likely category. Scientific knowledge continues to advance, despite the fact that these days there are many political detours along the way.

[centurion316]

The company Cellular Research Institute (CRI) Genetics traced Crawford's ancestry back 55 generations with 99% accuracy

Not exactly. Probably written by someone who believes in Climate Change and knows that San Francisco will be flooded before the end of the Trump Administration

This group is one of the four major Native American groups in North America. These groups are traced back to four female ancestors: Ai, Ina, Chie and Sachi. Crawford appears to be a descendant of Ina.

This part is mostly nonsense. No such women named Ai, Ina, Chie, and Sachi existed. A mathematical extrapolation for mDNA was examined to determine the earliest ancestor for the haplogroups for Native Americans. Crawford shares the haplogroup with the mythical Ina, but it doesn't mean much more. He probably has some Neaderthal DNA also, but we're not sure because Ug did not leave a will.

[frank ballenger]

RE: Nat.Am. from "the stars" Well, if you go back far enough, that’s not entirely incorrect.

The leftist Cosmos egghead Carl Sagan said "we are star stuff."

As a kid I asked someone if the "dust" in stellar dust in space was special or if it was just like our earth dust. He said just a form of regular dust. Then I thought "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" and God created us out of dust. To a kid--wow stuff.

[ElkGroveDan]

LOL

[Svartalfiar]

The company Cellular Research Institute (CRI) Genetics traced Crawford's ancestry back 55 generations with 99% accuracy

Seems legit.

Yea, right? How do they have the names/people to go back that far? Especially with Tribal Americans, they don't have much of any written history to have any lineage knowledge. Or, did they just find his DNA was somewhat close to one dude they found in the ice, so the 55-generation trace is actually five generations and a 50-gen jump?

[Ezekiel]

Crawford shares the haplogroup with the mythical Ina...

That would explain how they got 99% accuracy. Is that like Saddam getting 99% of the vote?

They know not to claim 100%, otherwise somebody just might become a tad suspicious.

[SunkenCiv]

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• After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man's Semen Contains Only Donor's DNA [2019]
• When a DNA Test Says You're a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away [2019]
• Human genetic diversity of South America reveals complex history of Amazonia [2019]
• The new face of South American people [Luzia not African or Australasian] [2019]
• Closest-known ancestor of today's Native Americans found in Siberia [2019]
• Scientists stunned by discovery of 'semi-identical' twins [2019]
• DNA from a newly unearthed Alaska graveyard offers fresh knowledge about ancient Arctic populations [2019]
• In Huge Shock, Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Fathers [2018]
• Three New DNA Studies Are Shaking Up the History of Humans in the Americas [2018]
• World's oldest chocolate was made 5300 years ago -- in a South American rainforest [2018]
• The Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon were using cocoa 5,300 years ago [2018]
• First dogs in the Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact [2018]
• And two became one: ancient American lineages reunited to head south [2018]
• Dogs lived and died with humans 10,000 years ago in the Americas [2018]
• A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians [2015]
• Is the Amazon rainforest MAN-MADE? At least 8 MILLION humans may have lived and farmed the [tr] [2015]
• Scientists Trace an Ancient Connection Between Amazonians and Australasians [2015]
• New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American [2015]
• Bone analysis reveals violent history of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica [2015]
• First DNA tests say Kennewick Man was Native American [2015]
• Study of ancient dogs in the Americas yields insights into human, dog migration [2015]
• "Great Surprise" -- Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins [2014]
• Sunken body clue to American origins [2014]
• Ancient DNA Ties Native Americans From Two Continents To Clovis [2014]
• Prehistoric Boy May Be Native American 'Missing Link' (Aznick Boy) [2014]
• 24,000-Year-Old Body Is Kin to Both Europeans and American Indians [2013]
• Ancient DNA Links Native Americans to Europe [2013]
• European Roots for Native Americans? [2013]
• First Americans came from Europe NOT Asia? [2013]
• DNA reveals details of the peopling of the Americas [2013]
• Native Native American dogs [2013]
• Sorry, China, But Native Americans Probably Aren't Hunanese [2013]
• Native Americans and Northern Europeans Paleolithic Cousins [2012]
• Israeli researchers find American Indians with Jewish genetic markers [2012]
• Did Easter Islanders Mix It Up With South Americans? [2012]
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• Did Australian Aborigines reach America first? [2010]
• Mitochondrial genome analysis revises view of the initial peopling of North America [2010]
• Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus [2009]
• Native Americans Descended From a Single Ancestral Group, DNA Study Confirms [2009]
• Hebrew DNA found in South America? [OPEN] [2009]
• First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence [2009]
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• First Americans All from Siberia, Study Confirms [2007]
• Ancient Mexican City Raises Questions About Mesoamerica's Mother Culture [2007]
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• Polynesians Beat Columbus To The Americas [2007]
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• Skull Study Suggests at Least Two Groups Colonized America [2005]
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• Archeologist finds evidence of humans in North America 50,000 years ago [2004]
• [no Tinder required] Dating Early Man in the Americas [2004]
• The Antiquity of Man in America [2004]
• Rediscovering America. (The New World May Be 20,000 Years Older Than Experts Thought) [2003]
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