Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient BeringiansGenetic analysis of a baby girl who died at the end of the last ice age shows she belonged to a previously unknown ancient group of Native AmericansIan Sample Science editor
Wed 3 Jan ‘18 13.00 EST Last modified on Wed 3 Jan ‘18 19.10 EST
A baby girl who lived and died in what is now Alaska at the end of the last ice age belonged to a previously unknown group of ancient Native Americans, according to DNA recovered from her bones.
The child, a mere six weeks old when she died, was found in a burial pit next to the remains of a stillborn baby, perhaps a first cousin, during excavations of an 11,500-year-old residential camp in Tanana River Valley in Central Alaska. The remains were discovered in 2013, but a full genetic analysis has not been possible until now.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/03/ancient-dna-reveals-previously-unknown-group-of-native-americans-ancient-beringians
