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3. Experimental bison butchery using replica hafted Clovis fluted points and large handheld flakes

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Eren, Metin I., Bebber, Michelle R., Mukusha, Lawrence, Wilson, Michael, Boehm, Andrew R., Buchanan, Briggs, Miller, G. Logan, Skoglund, Matt, Hayes, John, Barta, Max, Bates, Samantha, Callaghan, Ryan, Floyd, Chester, Morris, Seth, Neuharth, Spencer, Newcomb, Clay, Rinella, Steven, Schneider, Corinne, Smith, Mary Margaret, Parfitt, Anne, and Meltzer, David J.

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2024
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5. The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

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Sikora, Martin, Pitulko, Vladimir V, Sousa, Vitor C, Allentoft, Morten E, Vinner, Lasse, Rasmussen, Simon, Margaryan, Ashot, de Barros Damgaard, Peter, de la Fuente, Constanza, Renaud, Gabriel, Yang, Melinda A, Fu, Qiaomei, Dupanloup, Isabelle, Giampoudakis, Konstantinos, Nogués-Bravo, David, Rahbek, Carsten, Kroonen, Guus, Peyrot, Michaël, McColl, Hugh, Vasilyev, Sergey V, Veselovskaya, Elizaveta, Gerasimova, Margarita, Pavlova, Elena Y, Chasnyk, Vyacheslav G, Nikolskiy, Pavel A, Gromov, Andrei V, Khartanovich, Valeriy I, Moiseyev, Vyacheslav, Grebenyuk, Pavel S, Fedorchenko, Alexander Yu, Lebedintsev, Alexander I, Slobodin, Sergey B, Malyarchuk, Boris A, Martiniano, Rui, Meldgaard, Morten, Arppe, Laura, Palo, Jukka U, Sundell, Tarja, Mannermaa, Kristiina, Putkonen, Mikko, Alexandersen, Verner, Primeau, Charlotte, Baimukhanov, Nurbol, Malhi, Ripan S, Sjögren, Karl-Göran, Kristiansen, Kristian, Wessman, Anna, Sajantila, Antti, Lahr, Marta Mirazon, Durbin, Richard, Nielsen, Rasmus, Meltzer, David J, Excoffier, Laurent, and Willerslev, Eske

Subjects
Asia, DNA, Ancient, Europe, Gene Pool, Genome, Human, Haplotypes, History, 15th Century, History, Ancient, History, Medieval, Human Migration, Humans, Indians, North American, Male, Siberia, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Northeastern Siberia has been inhabited by humans for more than 40,000 years but its deep population history remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the late Pleistocene population history of northeastern Siberia through analyses of 34 newly recovered ancient genomes that date to between 31,000 and 600 years ago. We document complex population dynamics during this period, including at least three major migration events: an initial peopling by a previously unknown Palaeolithic population of 'Ancient North Siberians' who are distantly related to early West Eurasian hunter-gatherers; the arrival of East Asian-related peoples, which gave rise to 'Ancient Palaeo-Siberians' who are closely related to contemporary communities from far-northeastern Siberia (such as the Koryaks), as well as Native Americans; and a Holocene migration of other East Asian-related peoples, who we name 'Neo-Siberians', and from whom many contemporary Siberians are descended. Each of these population expansions largely replaced the earlier inhabitants, and ultimately generated the mosaic genetic make-up of contemporary peoples who inhabit a vast area across northern Eurasia and the Americas.

Published
2019

6. Reply to: When did mammoths go extinct?

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Wang, Yucheng, Prohaska, Ana, Dong, Haoran, Alberti, Adriana, Alsos, Inger Greve, Beilman, David W., Bjørk, Anders A., Cao, Jialu, Cherezova, Anna A., Coissac, Eric, De Sanctis, Bianca, Denoeud, France, Dockter, Christoph, Durbin, Richard, Edwards, Mary E., Edwards, Neil R., Esdale, Julie, Fedorov, Grigory B., Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio, Froese, Duane G., Gusarova, Galina, Haile, James, Holden, Philip B., Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Kjær, Kurt H., Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Lammers, Youri, Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Macleod, Ruairidh, Mangerud, Jan, McColl, Hugh, Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid, Money, Daniel, Möller, Per, Nogués-Bravo, David, Orlando, Ludovic, Owens, Hannah Lois, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Racimo, Fernando, Rahbek, Carsten, Rasic, Jeffrey T., Rouillard, Alexandra, Ruter, Anthony H., Skadhauge, Birgitte, Svendsen, John Inge, Tikhonov, Alexei, Vinner, Lasse, Wincker, Patrick, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Yubin, Meltzer, David J., and Willerslev, Eske

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2022
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9. Early human dispersals within the Americas

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Moreno-Mayar, J Víctor, Vinner, Lasse, de Barros Damgaard, Peter, de la Fuente, Constanza, Chan, Jeffrey, Spence, Jeffrey P, Allentoft, Morten E, Vimala, Tharsika, Racimo, Fernando, Pinotti, Thomaz, Rasmussen, Simon, Margaryan, Ashot, Iraeta Orbegozo, Miren, Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea, Wooller, Matthew, Bataille, Clement, Becerra-Valdivia, Lorena, Chivall, David, Comeskey, Daniel, Devièse, Thibaut, Grayson, Donald K, George, Len, Harry, Harold, Alexandersen, Verner, Primeau, Charlotte, Erlandson, Jon, Rodrigues-Carvalho, Claudia, Reis, Silvia, Bastos, Murilo QR, Cybulski, Jerome, Vullo, Carlos, Morello, Flavia, Vilar, Miguel, Wells, Spencer, Gregersen, Kristian, Hansen, Kasper Lykke, Lynnerup, Niels, Mirazón Lahr, Marta, Kjær, Kurt, Strauss, André, Alfonso-Durruty, Marta, Salas, Antonio, Schroeder, Hannes, Higham, Thomas, Malhi, Ripan S, Rasic, Jeffrey T, Souza, Luiz, Santos, Fabricio R, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Sikora, Martin, Nielsen, Rasmus, Song, Yun S, Meltzer, David J, and Willerslev, Eske

Subjects
Clinical Research, Datasets as Topic, Asia, Eastern, Genome, Human, Genomics, Human Migration, Humans, Indians, North American, North America, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Population Dynamics, Siberia, South America, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Studies of the peopling of the Americas have focused on the timing and number of initial migrations. Less attention has been paid to the subsequent spread of people within the Americas. We sequenced 15 ancient human genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia; six are ≥10,000 years old (up to ~18× coverage). All are most closely related to Native Americans, including those from an Ancient Beringian individual and two morphologically distinct "Paleoamericans." We found evidence of rapid dispersal and early diversification that included previously unknown groups as people moved south. This resulted in multiple independent, geographically uneven migrations, including one that provides clues of a Late Pleistocene Australasian genetic signal, as well as a later Mesoamerican-related expansion. These led to complex and dynamic population histories from North to South America.

Published
2018

11. Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Author

Wang, Yucheng, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Alsos, Inger Greve, De Sanctis, Bianca, Racimo, Fernando, Prohaska, Ana, Coissac, Eric, Owens, Hannah Lois, Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid, Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio, Rouillard, Alexandra, Lammers, Youri, Alberti, Adriana, Denoeud, France, Money, Daniel, Ruter, Anthony H., McColl, Hugh, Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Cherezova, Anna A., Edwards, Mary E., Fedorov, Grigory B., Haile, James, Orlando, Ludovic, Vinner, Lasse, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Beilman, David W., Bjørk, Anders A., Cao, Jialu, Dockter, Christoph, Esdale, Julie, Gusarova, Galina, Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Mangerud, Jan, Rasic, Jeffrey T., Skadhauge, Birgitte, Svendsen, John Inge, Tikhonov, Alexei, Wincker, Patrick, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Yubin, Froese, Duane G., Rahbek, Carsten, Bravo, David Nogues, Holden, Philip B., Edwards, Neil R., Durbin, Richard, Meltzer, David J., Kjær, Kurt H., Möller, Per, and Willerslev, Eske

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2021
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13. The Nelson stone tool cache, North-Central Ohio, U.S.A.: Assessing its cultural affiliation

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Eren, Metin I., Bebber, Michelle R., Mika, Anna, Flood, Kat, Maguire, Leanna, Norris, Dusty, Perrone, Alyssa, Mullen, Damon A., Centea, Scott, Centea, Chase, Christy, Bob, Daud, Rami, Jackson, Jermaine, Patten, Robert J., Redmond, Brian G., Buchanan, Briggs, Haythorn, Richard, Miller, G. Logan, Conaway, Mark A., Gürbüz, Rebecca Biermann, Lycett, Stephen J., Kilby, J. David, Andrews, Brian, MacDonald, Brandi, Boulanger, Matthew T., and Meltzer, David J.

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2021
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14. Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

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Sikora, Martin, Seguin-Orlando, Andaine, Sousa, Vitor C, Albrechtsen, Anders, Korneliussen, Thorfinn, Ko, Amy, Rasmussen, Simon, Dupanloup, Isabelle, Nigst, Philip R, Bosch, Marjolein D, Renaud, Gabriel, Allentoft, Morten E, Margaryan, Ashot, Vasilyev, Sergey V, Veselovskaya, Elizaveta V, Borutskaya, Svetlana B, Deviese, Thibaut, Comeskey, Dan, Higham, Tom, Manica, Andrea, Foley, Robert, Meltzer, David J, Nielsen, Rasmus, Excoffier, Laurent, Mirazon Lahr, Marta, Orlando, Ludovic, and Willerslev, Eske

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Anthropology, Genetics, Human Society, DNA, Ancient, Genome, Human, History, Ancient, Humans, Population Density, Reproductive Behavior, Russia, Social Behavior, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band relatedness and inbreeding. When these wider social networks evolved among HGs is unknown. To investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present in the Upper Paleolithic, we used complete genome sequences from Sunghir, a site dated to ~34,000 years before the present, containing multiple anatomically modern human individuals. We show that individuals at Sunghir derive from a population of small effective size, with limited kinship and levels of inbreeding similar to HG populations. Our findings suggest that Upper Paleolithic social organization was similar to that of living HGs, with limited relatedness within residential groups embedded in a larger mating network.

Published
2017

17. Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics

Author

Willerslev, Eske and Meltzer, David J.

Subjects
Genetic research, Prehistoric peoples -- Genetic aspects, Genomes -- Research, Mitochondrial DNA -- Research, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown that this history, which began in the late Pleistocene epoch and continued episodically into the Holocene epoch, was far more complex than previously thought. It is now evident that the initial dispersal involved the movement from northeast Asia of distinct and previously unknown populations, including some for whom there are no currently known descendants. The first peoples, once south of the continental ice sheets, spread widely, expanded rapidly and branched into multiple populations. Their descendants--over the next fifteen millennia--experienced varying degrees of isolation, admixture, continuity and replacement, and their genomes help to illuminate the relationships among major subgroups of Native American populations. Notably, all ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim--which is based on anatomical evidence--that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americas. Here we review the patterns revealed by ancient genomics that help to shed light on the past peoples who created the archaeological landscape, and together lead to deeper insights into the population and cultural history of the Americas. A review of the ancient human genomic record sheds light on the peopling processes of the Americas., Author(s): Eske Willerslev [sup.1] [sup.2] [sup.3] , David J. Meltzer [sup.2] [sup.4] Author Affiliations: (1) GeoGenetics Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2) Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, [...]

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2021
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18. Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor

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Pedersen, Mikkel W, Ruter, Anthony, Schweger, Charles, Friebe, Harvey, Staff, Richard A, Kjeldsen, Kristian K, Mendoza, Marie LZ, Beaudoin, Alwynne B, Zutter, Cynthia, Larsen, Nicolaj K, Potter, Ben A, Nielsen, Rasmus, Rainville, Rebecca A, Orlando, Ludovic, Meltzer, David J, Kjær, Kurt H, and Willerslev, Eske

Subjects
Earth Sciences, Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Geology, Climate Action, Animal Migration, Animals, Bison, DNA, Deer, Forests, Fossils, Genomics, Geologic Sediments, History, Ancient, Human Migration, Humans, Ice Cover, Mammoths, Models, Theoretical, North America, Pollen, Radiometric Dating, Siberia, General Science & Technology
Abstract

During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia (northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By around 15 to 14 thousand calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal. kyr bp), glacial retreat opened an approximately 1,500-km-long corridor between the ice sheets. It remains unclear when plants and animals colonized this corridor and it became biologically viable for human migration. We obtained radiocarbon dates, pollen, macrofossils and metagenomic DNA from lake sediment cores in a bottleneck portion of the corridor. We find evidence of steppe vegetation, bison and mammoth by approximately 12.6 cal. kyr bp, followed by open forest, with evidence of moose and elk at about 11.5 cal. kyr bp, and boreal forest approximately 10 cal. kyr bp. Our findings reveal that the first Americans, whether Clovis or earlier groups in unglaciated North America before 12.6 cal. kyr bp, are unlikely to have travelled by this route into the Americas. However, later groups may have used this north-south passageway.

Published
2016

22. Block C

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Morgan, Brooke M., primary, Andrews, Brian N., additional, and Meltzer, David J., additional

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2021
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24. Apendix

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Andrews, Brian N., primary, Meltzer, David J., additional, and Stiger, Mark, additional

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2021
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25. Introduction

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Andrews, Brian N., primary, Meltzer, David J., additional, and Stiger, Mark, additional

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2021
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28. The Environmental Context

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Andrews, Brian N., primary, Meltzer, David J., additional, Emslie, Steven D., additional, Briles, Christy E., additional, and Whitlock, Cathy, additional

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2021
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30. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

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Raghavan, Maanasa, Steinrücken, Matthias, Harris, Kelley, Schiffels, Stephan, Rasmussen, Simon, DeGiorgio, Michael, Albrechtsen, Anders, Valdiosera, Cristina, Ávila-Arcos, María C, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Eriksson, Anders, Moltke, Ida, Metspalu, Mait, Homburger, Julian R, Wall, Jeff, Cornejo, Omar E, Moreno-Mayar, J Víctor, Korneliussen, Thorfinn S, Pierre, Tracey, Rasmussen, Morten, Campos, Paula F, de Barros Damgaard, Peter, Allentoft, Morten E, Lindo, John, Metspalu, Ene, Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo, Mansilla, Josefina, Henrickson, Celeste, Seguin-Orlando, Andaine, Malmström, Helena, Stafford, Thomas, Shringarpure, Suyash S, Moreno-Estrada, Andrés, Karmin, Monika, Tambets, Kristiina, Bergström, Anders, Xue, Yali, Warmuth, Vera, Friend, Andrew D, Singarayer, Joy, Valdes, Paul, Balloux, Francois, Leboreiro, Ilán, Vera, Jose Luis, Rangel-Villalobos, Hector, Pettener, Davide, Luiselli, Donata, Davis, Loren G, Heyer, Evelyne, Zollikofer, Christoph PE, Ponce de León, Marcia S, Smith, Colin I, Grimes, Vaughan, Pike, Kelly-Anne, Deal, Michael, Fuller, Benjamin T, Arriaza, Bernardo, Standen, Vivien, Luz, Maria F, Ricaut, Francois, Guidon, Niede, Osipova, Ludmila, Voevoda, Mikhail I, Posukh, Olga L, Balanovsky, Oleg, Lavryashina, Maria, Bogunov, Yuri, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Gubina, Marina, Balanovska, Elena, Fedorova, Sardana, Litvinov, Sergey, Malyarchuk, Boris, Derenko, Miroslava, Mosher, MJ, Archer, David, Cybulski, Jerome, Petzelt, Barbara, Mitchell, Joycelynn, Worl, Rosita, Norman, Paul J, Parham, Peter, Kemp, Brian M, Kivisild, Toomas, Tyler-Smith, Chris, Sandhu, Manjinder S, Crawford, Michael, Villems, Richard, Smith, David Glenn, Waters, Michael R, Goebel, Ted, Johnson, John R, Malhi, Ripan S, Jakobsson, Mattias, Meltzer, David J, Manica, Andrea, Durbin, Richard, Bustamante, Carlos D, Song, Yun S, and Nielsen, Rasmus

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, History, Heritage and Archaeology, Human Society, Historical Studies, Anthropology, Minority Health, Human Genome, American Indian or Alaska Native, Americas, Gene Flow, Genomics, History, Ancient, Human Migration, Humans, Indians, North American, Models, Genetic, Siberia, General Science & Technology
Abstract

How and when the Americas were populated remains contentious. Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, we found that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans and Amerindians, entered the Americas as a single migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23 thousand years ago (ka) and after no more than an 8000-year isolation period in Beringia. After their arrival to the Americas, ancestral Native Americans diversified into two basal genetic branches around 13 ka, one that is now dispersed across North and South America and the other restricted to North America. Subsequent gene flow resulted in some Native Americans sharing ancestry with present-day East Asians (including Siberians) and, more distantly, Australo-Melanesians. Putative "Paleoamerican" relict populations, including the historical Mexican Pericúes and South American Fuego-Patagonians, are not directly related to modern Australo-Melanesians as suggested by the Paleoamerican Model.

Published
2015

31. POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans.

Author

Raghavan, Maanasa, Steinrücken, Matthias, Harris, Kelley, Schiffels, Stephan, Rasmussen, Simon, DeGiorgio, Michael, Albrechtsen, Anders, Valdiosera, Cristina, Ávila-Arcos, María C, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Eriksson, Anders, Moltke, Ida, Metspalu, Mait, Homburger, Julian R, Wall, Jeff, Cornejo, Omar E, Moreno-Mayar, J Víctor, Korneliussen, Thorfinn S, Pierre, Tracey, Rasmussen, Morten, Campos, Paula F, de Barros Damgaard, Peter, Allentoft, Morten E, Lindo, John, Metspalu, Ene, Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo, Mansilla, Josefina, Henrickson, Celeste, Seguin-Orlando, Andaine, Malmström, Helena, Stafford, Thomas, Shringarpure, Suyash S, Moreno-Estrada, Andrés, Karmin, Monika, Tambets, Kristiina, Bergström, Anders, Xue, Yali, Warmuth, Vera, Friend, Andrew D, Singarayer, Joy, Valdes, Paul, Balloux, Francois, Leboreiro, Ilán, Vera, Jose Luis, Rangel-Villalobos, Hector, Pettener, Davide, Luiselli, Donata, Davis, Loren G, Heyer, Evelyne, Zollikofer, Christoph PE, Ponce de León, Marcia S, Smith, Colin I, Grimes, Vaughan, Pike, Kelly-Anne, Deal, Michael, Fuller, Benjamin T, Arriaza, Bernardo, Standen, Vivien, Luz, Maria F, Ricaut, Francois, Guidon, Niede, Osipova, Ludmila, Voevoda, Mikhail I, Posukh, Olga L, Balanovsky, Oleg, Lavryashina, Maria, Bogunov, Yuri, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Gubina, Marina, Balanovska, Elena, Fedorova, Sardana, Litvinov, Sergey, Malyarchuk, Boris, Derenko, Miroslava, Mosher, MJ, Archer, David, Cybulski, Jerome, Petzelt, Barbara, Mitchell, Joycelynn, Worl, Rosita, Norman, Paul J, Parham, Peter, Kemp, Brian M, Kivisild, Toomas, Tyler-Smith, Chris, Sandhu, Manjinder S, Crawford, Michael, Villems, Richard, Smith, David Glenn, Waters, Michael R, Goebel, Ted, Johnson, John R, Malhi, Ripan S, Jakobsson, Mattias, Meltzer, David J, Manica, Andrea, Durbin, Richard, Bustamante, Carlos D, Song, Yun S, and Nielsen, Rasmus

Subjects
Humans, Genomics, Models, Genetic, History, Ancient, Indians, North American, Americas, Siberia, Gene Flow, Human Migration, Human Genome, Genetics, General Science & Technology
Abstract

How and when the Americas were populated remains contentious. Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, we found that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans and Amerindians, entered the Americas as a single migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23 thousand years ago (ka) and after no more than an 8000-year isolation period in Beringia. After their arrival to the Americas, ancestral Native Americans diversified into two basal genetic branches around 13 ka, one that is now dispersed across North and South America and the other restricted to North America. Subsequent gene flow resulted in some Native Americans sharing ancestry with present-day East Asians (including Siberians) and, more distantly, Australo-Melanesians. Putative "Paleoamerican" relict populations, including the historical Mexican Pericúes and South American Fuego-Patagonians, are not directly related to modern Australo-Melanesians as suggested by the Paleoamerican Model.

Published
2015

32. The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

Author

Rasmussen, Morten, Sikora, Martin, Albrechtsen, Anders, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Moreno-Mayar, J Víctor, Poznik, G David, Zollikofer, Christoph PE, Ponce de León, Marcia S, Allentoft, Morten E, Moltke, Ida, Jónsson, Hákon, Valdiosera, Cristina, Malhi, Ripan S, Orlando, Ludovic, Bustamante, Carlos D, Stafford, Thomas W, Meltzer, David J, Nielsen, Rasmus, and Willerslev, Eske

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Anthropology, History, Heritage and Archaeology, Human Society, Clinical Research, Americas, Genome, Human, Genomics, Humans, Indians, North American, Male, Phylogeny, Skeleton, Skull, Washington, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Kennewick Man, referred to as the Ancient One by Native Americans, is a male human skeleton discovered in Washington state (USA) in 1996 and initially radiocarbon dated to 8,340-9,200 calibrated years before present (BP). His population affinities have been the subject of scientific debate and legal controversy. Based on an initial study of cranial morphology it was asserted that Kennewick Man was neither Native American nor closely related to the claimant Plateau tribes of the Pacific Northwest, who claimed ancestral relationship and requested repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The morphological analysis was important to judicial decisions that Kennewick Man was not Native American and that therefore NAGPRA did not apply. Instead of repatriation, additional studies of the remains were permitted. Subsequent craniometric analysis affirmed Kennewick Man to be more closely related to circumpacific groups such as the Ainu and Polynesians than he is to modern Native Americans. In order to resolve Kennewick Man's ancestry and affiliations, we have sequenced his genome to ∼1× coverage and compared it to worldwide genomic data including for the Ainu and Polynesians. We find that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other population worldwide. Among the Native American groups for whom genome-wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville), one of the five tribes claiming Kennewick Man. We revisit the cranial analyses and find that, as opposed to genome-wide comparisons, it is not possible on that basis to affiliate Kennewick Man to specific contemporary groups. We therefore conclude based on genetic comparisons that Kennewick Man shows continuity with Native North Americans over at least the last eight millennia.

Published
2015

33. Author Correction: Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Author

Wang, Yucheng, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Alsos, Inger Greve, De Sanctis, Bianca, Racimo, Fernando, Prohaska, Ana, Coissac, Eric, Owens, Hannah Lois, Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid, Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio, Rouillard, Alexandra, Lammers, Youri, Alberti, Adriana, Denoeud, France, Money, Daniel, Ruter, Anthony H., McColl, Hugh, Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Cherezova, Anna A., Edwards, Mary E., Fedorov, Grigory B., Haile, James, Orlando, Ludovic, Vinner, Lasse, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Beilman, David W., Bjørk, Anders A., Cao, Jialu, Dockter, Christoph, Esdale, Julie, Gusarova, Galina, Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Mangerud, Jan, Rasic, Jeffrey T., Skadhauge, Birgitte, Svendsen, John Inge, Tikhonov, Alexei, Wincker, Patrick, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Yubin, Froese, Duane G., Rahbek, Carsten, Bravo, David Nogues, Holden, Philip B., Edwards, Neil R., Durbin, Richard, Meltzer, David J., Kjær, Kurt H., Möller, Per, and Willerslev, Eske

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2022
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34. The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

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Rasmussen, Morten, Anzick, Sarah L, Waters, Michael R, Skoglund, Pontus, DeGiorgio, Michael, Stafford, Thomas W, Rasmussen, Simon, Moltke, Ida, Albrechtsen, Anders, Doyle, Shane M, Poznik, G David, Gudmundsdottir, Valborg, Yadav, Rachita, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, V, Samuel Stockton White, Allentoft, Morten E, Cornejo, Omar E, Tambets, Kristiina, Eriksson, Anders, Heintzman, Peter D, Karmin, Monika, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Meltzer, David J, Pierre, Tracey L, Stenderup, Jesper, Saag, Lauri, Warmuth, Vera M, Lopes, Margarida C, Malhi, Ripan S, Brunak, Søren, Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas, Barnes, Ian, Collins, Matthew, Orlando, Ludovic, Balloux, Francois, Manica, Andrea, Gupta, Ramneek, Metspalu, Mait, Bustamante, Carlos D, Jakobsson, Mattias, Nielsen, Rasmus, and Willerslev, Eske

Subjects
Genetics, Biotechnology, American Indian or Alaska Native, Human Genome, Archaeology, Asia, Bone and Bones, Burial, Chromosomes, Human, Y, DNA, Mitochondrial, Emigration and Immigration, Europe, Gene Flow, Genome, Human, Haplotypes, History, Ancient, Humans, Indians, North American, Infant, Male, Models, Genetic, Molecular Sequence Data, Montana, Phylogeny, Population Dynamics, Radiometric Dating, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 (14)C years before present (bp) (13,000 to 12,600 calendar years bp). Nearly 50 years of archaeological research point to the Clovis complex as having developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology. However, both the origins and the genetic legacy of the people who manufactured Clovis tools remain under debate. It is generally believed that these people ultimately derived from Asia and were directly related to contemporary Native Americans. An alternative, Solutrean, hypothesis posits that the Clovis predecessors emigrated from southwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum. Here we report the genome sequence of a male infant (Anzick-1) recovered from the Anzick burial site in western Montana. The human bones date to 10,705 ± 35 (14)C years bp (approximately 12,707-12,556 calendar years bp) and were directly associated with Clovis tools. We sequenced the genome to an average depth of 14.4× and show that the gene flow from the Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal'ta population into Native American ancestors is also shared by the Anzick-1 individual and thus happened before 12,600 years bp. We also show that the Anzick-1 individual is more closely related to all indigenous American populations than to any other group. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that Anzick-1 belonged to a population directly ancestral to many contemporary Native Americans. Finally, we find evidence of a deep divergence in Native American populations that predates the Anzick-1 individual.

Published
2014

44. The Mountaineer Site : A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies

Author

Andrews, Brian N., Meltzer, David J., Stiger, Mark, Anderson, Richard J., Boehm, Andrew R., Briles, Christy E., Cross, Katherine A., Emslie, Steven D., Eren, Metin I., Gunst, Richard F., Jayalath, Kalanka P., Morgan, Brooke M., Whitlock, Cathy, Andrews, Brian N., Meltzer, David J., Stiger, Mark, Anderson, Richard J., Boehm, Andrew R., Briles, Christy E., Cross, Katherine A., Emslie, Steven D., Eren, Metin I., Gunst, Richard F., Jayalath, Kalanka P., Morgan, Brooke M., and Whitlock, Cathy

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2021
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45. Meltzer, David J.

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Meltzer, David J. and Meltzer, David J.

Published
2023

46. Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

Author

Moreno-Mayar, J. Vctor, Potter, Ben A., Vinner, Lasse, Steinrcken, Matthias, Rasmussen, Simon, Terhorst, Jonathan, Kamm, John A., Albrechtsen, Anders, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Sikora, Martin, Reuther, Joshua D., Irish, Joel D., Malhi, Ripan S., Orlando, Ludovic, Song, Yun S., Nielsen, Rasmus, Meltzer, David J., and Willerslev, Eske

Subjects
Alaska -- Natural history, Native Americans -- Genetic aspects -- Natural history, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

Author(s): J. Vctor Moreno-Mayar [1]; Ben A. Potter [2]; Lasse Vinner [1]; Matthias Steinrcken [3, 4]; Simon Rasmussen [5]; Jonathan Terhorst [6, 7]; John A. Kamm [6, 8]; Anders Albrechtsen [...]

Published
2018
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