Hot Topic The Latest Genetic And Archaeological Evidence For The Peopling Of The Americas

New Book Origin Details Peopling Of The Americas Via Latest Genetic How⁠ and when⁠ did people first come to the american continents? in this video, jennifer raff, associate professor of anthropology at kansas university, join. Jennifer raff, associate professor of anthropology at kansas university, joined our hot topic program to examine the latest genetic and archaeological evidence that provides a clearer picture of america’s first peoples. she pieced together a story told by fragments of dna recovered from a tooth in siberia, by a small broken knife found deep.

New Book Origin Details Peopling Of The Americas Via Latest Genetic New book for popular audiences combines archaeology with emerging genetic evidence to tell the story of peoples from siberia who were the first to populate the americas some 20,000 years ago. Before the advent of genomics, genetic evidence for the peopling of the americas relied on studies of mitochondrial dna (mtdna) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and the non recombining portion of the y chromosome 8. By the way, at monday’s press conference, the authors acknowledged that beringia and the kelp highway are not the only two models for the peopling of the americas. a few others are bandied about, most typically in sketchy videos that are light on sourcing. there has been speculation, for example, that oceanic populations sailed. A hodgepodge of evidence. for decades, scientists subscribed to the clovis first model of the peopling of the americas, the idea that the earliest humans on the landmass had crossed the bering land bridge after the last glacial maximum when glaciers began to recede, about 13,000 years ago.