{"id":39376,"date":"2015-01-10T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39376"},"modified":"2015-01-11T00:11:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T00:11:47","slug":"naia-reborn-see-the-surprising-face-of-a-first-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39376","title":{"rendered":"Naia Reborn: See the Surprising Face of a First American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/naia-reborn-see-surprising-face-first-american-n282131\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Naia Reborn: See the Surprising Face of a First American<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/10912485\/ns\/technology_and_science\/t\/alan-boyle\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alan Boyle<\/strong><\/a>, Digital&#8217;s Science Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/naia-reborn-see-surprising-face-first-american-n282131\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media4.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2015_02\/839421\/150108-naia_f319babc1a927936b954164a2f92c8c7.nbcnews-ux-720-900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Timothy Archibald \/ <em>National Geographic<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Researchers and artists have reconstructed the face of a teenage girl who lived 12,000 years ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>, and it&#8217;s not the kind of face a person might typically associate with Native Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of the girl, nicknamed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naia_(skeleton)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Naia<\/em><\/a> (after the Greek term for a water nymph), were recovered from an underwater cave on Mexico&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yucat%C3%A1n_Peninsula\" target=\"_blank\">Yucatan Peninsula<\/a>. Naia is regarded as one of the earliest known residents of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Americas\" target=\"_blank\">Americas<\/a> \u2014 but her skull has a shape associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\">African<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australasia\" target=\"_blank\">South Pacific<\/a> populations rather than the typical <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siberia\" target=\"_blank\">Siberian<\/a> look.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that different look, researchers say Naia is genetically related to Native Americans who came to America later, from Siberia via the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beringia\" target=\"_blank\">Beringia land bridge<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/naia-reborn-see-surprising-face-first-american-n282131\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naia Reborn: See the Surprising Face of a First American NBC News 2015-01-05 Alan Boyle, Digital&#8217;s Science Editor Timothy Archibald \/ National Geographic Researchers and artists have reconstructed the face of a teenage girl who lived 12,000 years ago in Mexico, and it&#8217;s not the kind of face a person might typically associate with Native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,2039,8,103,3015],"tags":[16855,15901,15127],"class_list":["post-39376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-native-americans","tag-alan-boyle","tag-national-geographic","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39376","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=39376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}