Jan 12, 2019, 04:52pm
Fire And Feces May Reveal An Early Human Presence In Alaska
Jennifer Raff
In recent years, two fields with different approaches to understanding the past—genetics and archaeology—have been somewhat out of synch with each other in their models for the initial peopling of the Americas. Genetic evidence unambiguously shows that the first peoples of the Americas were descended from a group of people who were themselves descended from East Asians and ancient North Eurasians before becoming isolated from gene flow for a period of time beginning around 23,000-20,000 years ago.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferraff/2019/01/12/fire-and-feces-may-reveal-an-early-human-presence-in-alaska/#28720d29762c
