Montana Boy: Bones Show Ancestral Links to Europe

[longknife]

By Rex Dalton @ der Spiegel online

Now, before you get your undies all knotted up, read this:

Now a team of scientists led by the Danish geneticist Eske Willerslev has analyzed the boy's origins and discovered that he descends from a Siberian tribe with roots tracing back to Europe. Some of the boy's ancestors are likely even to have lived in present-day Germany.

Their findings go even further: More than 80 percent of all native peoples in the Americas -- from the Alaska's Aleuts to the Maya of Yucatan to the Aymaras along the Andes -- are descended from Montana boy's lineage.

[Not a single word about having any African genes] Read more @ DNA Analysis Shows Native Americans Had European Roots - SPIEGEL ONLINE

 

[ScienceRocks]

Wow, this is something you'll never find in the google headlines.

 

[TheOldSchool]

From the article:

Such genetic analysis of Native American bones is highly controversial. It is a sacrilege to some. Others fear it could link their ancestors to Europeans, as this study has done. And some worried it could be misused in tribal disputes over who shares in the economic bounty from casinos that operate on the sovereign reservations.

Can someone clarify that?

 

[ScienceRocks]

From the article:

Such genetic analysis of Native American bones is highly controversial. It is a sacrilege to some. Others fear it could link their ancestors to Europeans, as this study has done. And some worried it could be misused in tribal disputes over who shares in the economic bounty from casinos that operate on the sovereign reservations.

Can someone clarify that?

Meaning the native Americans will fight teeth and nail the thought of being related to Europeans.

 

[william the wie]

From the article:

Such genetic analysis of Native American bones is highly controversial. It is a sacrilege to some. Others fear it could link their ancestors to Europeans, as this study has done. And some worried it could be misused in tribal disputes over who shares in the economic bounty from casinos that operate on the sovereign reservations.

Can someone clarify that?

Redskin is the 17th century term for sunburn. Albinism rates among the nations such as the Zuni and Utes with limited white contact runs about 20%. Also prehistoric and pre-Columbian contacts with Europe and China are very well established.

Reservation populations, at least for the Cherokee, are determined by geneology. If the oil prospects are good or casino revenues high an Indian descended of two or more nations is generally excluded from all reservations. That help?

 

[Old Rocks]

It would seem that European origin of the Clovis Culture is pretty much discredited with this find. I see no mention of Siberian by way of Germany in this article.

Prehistoric Boy May Be Native American 'Missing Link' | LiveScience

This new research "has settled the long-standing debate about the origins of the Clovis," Willerslev said. "We can say the Solutrean theory suggesting Clovis originated from people in Europe doesn't fit our results."

These genetic findings "seem to fit quite nicely with an early occupation of the Americas about 2,000 years before the onset of Clovis," Waters said. "If you look at credible evidence for the peopling of the Americas, most date from a period 15,000 to 14,500 years ago," although "there are claims of occupation 20,000 to 30,000 years ago."

The scientists also discovered evidence of a deep genetic divergence that occurred between northern Native American groups and those from Central and South America that happened before the Clovis era. Specifically, although most South Americans and Mexicans are part of the Anzick lineage and therefore Clovis, northern Canadian groups belong to another lineage.