The new face of South American people [Luzia not African or Australasian]

EurekAlert! ^ | Friday, November 9, 2018 | Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo

[SunkenCiv]

Over 17,000 years ago this original contingent crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska and began peopling the New World. Fossil DNA shows an affinity between this migratory current and the populations of Siberia and northern China. Contrary to the traditional theory it had no link to Africa or Australasia.

The new study also reveals that once they had settled in North America the descendants of this ancestral migratory flow diversified into two lineages some 16,000 years ago.

The members of one lineage crossed the Isthmus of Panama and peopled South America in three distinct consecutive waves.

The first wave occurred between 15,000 and 11,000 years ago. The second took place at most 9,000 years ago. There are fossil DNA records from both migrations throughout South America. The third wave is much more recent but its influence is limited as it occurred 4,200 years ago. Its members settled in the Central Andes...

According to the researchers' findings, the lineage that made the north-south journey between 16,000 and 15,000 years ago belonged to the Clovis culture, named for a group of archeological sites excavated in the western US and dating from 13,500-11,000 years ago...

At a later date, perhaps while pursuing herds of mastodons, Clovis hunter-gatherers crossed the Isthmus of Panama and spread into South America, as evidenced by genetic records from burial sites in Brazil and Chile revealed now. This genetic evidence corroborates well-known archeological finds such as the Monte Verde site in southern Chile, where humans butchered mastodons 14,800 years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

Study by 72 researchers from eight countries concludes that the Lagoa Santa people are descendants of Clovis culture migrants from North America. Distinctly African features attributed to Luzia were wrong. Credit: André Strauss e Caroline Wilkinson

[SunkenCiv]

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[centurion316]

When I was in graduate school, Clovis was the chiseled in stone marker for the first appearance of humans in the Western Hemisphere. You dared not make one step toward an earlier date. Not that I was looking for evidence of humans, I was trying to date glacial moraines, but I knew the rules.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[gundog]

I wouldn't say "glacial," but eminently dateable.

[Grampa Dave]

So what were these travelers doing in the parts of America and Mexico they passed through?

They probably didn’t pass through or stay as virgins.

Science and history are never really settled.

[oldasrocks]

So china will soon claim that South America belongs to them like they do with Taiwan and everything else.

[Fred Nerks]

A maverick scholar, Menzies has made a riveting new contribution to the story of humanity’s earliest explorers, revealing the truth behind one of history’s most fascinating questions: Who discovered America?

http://www.gavinmenzies.net/america-book/the-book/

[SunkenCiv]

Sez here mastodons. :^)

[Red Badger]

The third wave is much more recent but its influence is limited as it occurred 4,200 years ago. Its members settled in the Central Andes...

Mormons are elated!....................