Native indian dating
23-Jan-2020 21:34
Well placed as a Paleoamerican." Morphologically, Naia does not look like a contemporary Native American, but mitochondrial DNA testing -- maternally inherited DNA -- carried out by Brian Kemp, Washington State University, and his collaborators shows that she has a D1 haplotype.
This is consistent with the hypothesis that her ancestors' origins were in Beringia, a now partially submerged landmass including parts of Siberia, Alaska and the Yukon.
Early humans moved into this area from elsewhere in Asia and remained there for quite some time.
During that time they developed a unique haplotype that persists today in Native Americans.
At the same time, the researchers experimented with uranium thorium dating the skeleton directly.
Asmerom and Polyak tried to directly date Naia's teeth using this method, but that also did not work well.
An international team of researchers detailed their analysis of what is the oldest most complete, genetically intact human skeleton in the New World in a paper published today in the journal Science. -- Eastern Asia, Western Asia, Japan, Beringia and even Europe have all been suggested origination points for the earliest humans to enter the Americas because of apparent differences in cranial form between today's Native Americans and the earliest known Paleoamerican skeletons.The site where Naia lies is now 130 feet below sea level and sea level rise would have raised the groundwater level in the cave system and submerged everything between 9,700 and 10,200 years ago.