Ancient DNA Links Native Americans to Europe

Science Magazine ^ | 11/5/13 | Michael Balter

[ek_hornbeck]

SANTA FE—Where did the first Americans come from? Most researchers agree that Paleoamericans moved across the Bering Land Bridge from Asia sometime before 15,000 years ago, suggesting roots in East Asia. But just where the source populations arose has long been a mystery.

Now comes a surprising twist, from the complete nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years ago—the oldest complete genome of a modern human sequenced to date. His DNA shows close ties to those of today's Native Americans. Yet he apparently descended not from East Asians, but from people who had lived in Europe or western Asia. The finding suggests that about a third of the ancestry of today's Native Americans can be traced to "western Eurasia," with the other two-thirds coming from eastern Asia, according to a talk at a meeting* here by ancient DNA expert Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen. It also implies that traces of European ancestry previously detected in modern Native Americans do not come solely from mixing with European colonists, as most scientists had assumed, but have much deeper roots.

[muir_redwoods]

Conservapedia doesn’t give much information but does indicate that the Ainu predate the Jomon period. Who knows?

http://www.conservapedia.com/Ainu

[RegulatorCountry]

1/16 is good enough for the Cherokee if you can prove it, and proving it involves having a direct ancestor listed on either the Guion Miller roll if Eastern Cherokee or the Dawes roll if Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Legendary ancestry doesn't cut it and sometimes blood ties don't if your ancestors applied and show up on the rolls as denied, usually due to having lived apart from the tribe for too long. I've got seven on the Guion Miller roll, a former chief is a third cousin, but would not ever be accepted into the tribe because the applications of those seven were denied, they'd lived apart from the tribe and intermarried among whites for over a century.

[Little Bill]

Can’t say that. I got beat up on FR, awhile back, for suggesting something similar.

[ForGod'sSake]

Conservapedia doesn’t give much information but does indicate that the Ainu predate the Jomon period.

Hmmm, oddly enough, most everything I've run across on the subject indicates Jomon as precursors of the Ainu but like you say, who knows. There may be some political and/or cultural issues involved as well.

[vortec94]

Excellent point!!! I marvel at the range of knowledge I find on FR. Been around for a while but have noticed a general change in the level of discourse. Much briefer and much more crude and base. Kinda like our society.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Do you actually expect anything above a third grade level from a guy with my screen name