First Native American Population Was Just Around 250 People
No one knows exactly the population of Native Americans when contact with Europeans occured. There are some estimates claiming there …
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The Genealogy of Kwaday Dän Ts’inchi
In 1999, hunters looking for sheep stumbled upon the remains of a man in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park, British Columbia, Canada. The …
Nearly all of today’s Native Americans can trace their ancestry to six women
According to this open access PLoS One paper, 95% of Native Americans share their heritage to six women. I don’t …
Peopling of the Americas: Three Step Model for Colonizing the Americas
To supplement last September’s conclusion that the peopling of the Americas was initiated by a pretty diverse group of people …
A Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait?
The web is abuzz over a new publication in PLoS Genetics about a single main migration across Bering Strait. From …
