Ancient American’s Genome Mapped

13 February 2014

Present-day Native Americans are descended from some of the continent’s earliest settlers, a genetic study suggests.

Scientists sequenced the genome of a one-year-old boy who died in what is now Montana about 12,500 years ago.

Some researchers have raised questions about the origins of early Americans, with one theory even proposing a link to Ice Age Europeans.

But the Nature study places the origins of these ancient people in Asia.

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Just a small bit of my own history.

10 years ago, however, I recall the genome mapping of Cherokee tribesmen, which found a rather common Franco strain from about 10,000 years ago, so we had at least a few Ice Age tourists coming over from the big EU.