Posted on 02/13/2014 6:20:31 PM PST by BenLurkin
Clovis artifacts were common for about 400 years, starting about 13,000 years ago. But at this point, there is only one set of human remains associated with those sorts of tools: that of the baby from Montana.
"So this genetic study actually provides us with a look at who these people were," Waters says.
The most obvious conclusion from the study is that the Clovis people who lived on the Anzick site in Montana were genetically very much like Native Americans throughout the Western Hemisphere.
"The Anzick family is directly ancestral to so many peoples in the Americas," says Eske Willerslev, from the University of Copenhagen. "That's astonishing!"
He led the effort to read that genome. The genes reveal that early Americans are the product of two lineages that most likely met and interbred in Asia before making the trek across the Bering land bridge.
"So this strongly suggests that there was a single migration of people into the Americas," Waters says. "And these people were probably the people who eventually gave rise to Clovis."
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Has Maury Povich determined the “baby daddy”?
Since all Native Americans came across the Bering straight about 20,000 years ago there probably would have been a lot of interbreeding. It was just a narrow strip of land (or ice) at the time.
Yes, but they will be revealed after the commercial break.
Chronologically it would seem the migration happened during the last ice age.
Oh GREAT! NOW`china will lay claim to America just as they are laying claim to Taiwan.
We were there first. You have 2 weeks to move out.
Oh GREAT! NOW`china will lay claim to America just as they are laying claim to Taiwan.
We were there first. You have 2 weeks to move out.
Some sciencists said that the east coast Indians came from Europe. But then, who knows how humans got here.
but there are pre-clovis sites in Monte Verde, Chile and Meadowcroft shelter, PA so there this is just another volley in the 30 year squabble.
The Solutrean Hypothesis claims similiarities between Clovis and Solutrean flintwork. They're so similar that even some experts hace difficulty discerning the difference between Solutrean and Clovis bifaces.
It's possible that Solutrean seal hunters found their way to North America along the edge of the winter pack ice, which extended from southern France to Newfoundland.
Ancient Clovis genome from Montana yields no surprises 'The new study does not, of course, disprove any of the proposals in the preceding paragraph: one can still claim that diverse groups once inhabited the Americas and Rasmussen et al. (2014) just happened to chance upon one that looked just like modern native Americans. But, this certainly improves the odds of early "Native American simplicity", offering no evidence for the complexity postulated by many of the alternative theories.
Moreover, while the existence of other human groups in the Americas cannot be disproved by the study of a single ancient individual, what can be proved is the antiquity of the ancestors of Native Americans. Rather than being late arrivals arriving from Asia after the initial colonization, perhaps with derived Mongoloid physical morphology, we now know that they were already there as early as ~13 thousand years ago. It is remarkable that a single ancient DNA sample can sweep away much of the nonsense that has been written on the topic in the past.'
It is a curious trait of humans to look for a single answer, and view all other evidence as anomalous.
These Scientists are no exception.
WHOO HOO. I had an apartment in Clovis when I went to Fresno State!!!
Dittoes! Complexity for these people is just too damned...complex!
we’re all related to the jong-ils.
Those who look for only one answer, I call “One dimensional thinkers.”
“Two dimensional thinkers” are those who look at “both” sides.
I call them “Journalists.”
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