{"id":34808,"date":"2013-11-21T00:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34808"},"modified":"2015-05-06T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:53:29","slug":"24000-year-old-body-shows-kinship-to-europeans-and-american-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34808","title":{"rendered":"24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"

24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2013-11-20<\/p>\n

Nicholas Wade<\/strong><\/p>\n

The genome<\/a> of a young boy buried at Mal\u2019ta near Lake Baikal<\/a> in eastern Siberia<\/a> some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists.<\/p>\n

The first is that the boy\u2019s DNA<\/a> matches that of Western Europeans, showing that during the last Ice Age<\/a> people from Europe<\/a> had reached farther east across Eurasia<\/a> than previously supposed. Though none of the Mal\u2019ta boy\u2019s skin or hair survives, his genes suggest he would have had brown hair, brown eyes and freckled skin.<\/p>\n

The second surprise is that his DNA also matches a large proportion \u2014 about 25 percent \u2014 of the DNA of living Native Americans. The first people to arrive in the Americas have long been assumed to have descended from Siberian populations related to East Asians. It now seems that they may be a mixture between the Western Europeans who had reached Siberia and an East Asian population..<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

…There they lay for some 50 years until they were examined by a team led by Eske Willerslev<\/a> of the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Willerslev, an expert in analyzing ancient DNA, was seeking to understand the peopling of the Americas by searching for possible source populations in Siberia. He extracted DNA from bone taken from the child\u2019s upper arm, hoping to find ancestry in the East Asian peoples from whom Native Americans are known to be descended…<\/p>\n

…The other surprise from the Mal\u2019ta boy\u2019s genome was that it matched to both Europeans and Native Americans but not to East Asians. Dr. Willerslev\u2019s interpretation was that the ancestors of Native Americans had already separated from the East Asian population when they interbred with the people of the Mal\u2019ta culture, and that this admixed population then crossed over the Beringian land bridge<\/a> that then lay between Siberia and Alaska<\/a> to become a founding population of Native Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe estimate that 14 to 38 percent of Native American ancestry may originate through gene flow from this ancient population,\u201d he and colleagues wrote in an article published Wednesday in the journal Nature<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians The New York Times 2013-11-20 Nicholas Wade The genome of a young boy buried at Mal\u2019ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first is that the boy\u2019s DNA matches that of Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,28,8,3015],"tags":[16426,2640,9029,16427,2327],"class_list":["post-34808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-eske-willerslev","tag-new-york-times","tag-nicholas-wade","tag-siberia","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}