It seems like new discoveries about the peopling of the Americas are a dime a dozen these days.  Without a doubt, the journey those first Americans took from the frozen wastelands of Asia down the Pacific coast into the Americas has been an active research subject for many decades.  Archaeologists, linguists, and now geneticists have [...]

Tags: Americas, Bering Strait, Haplogroup, mitochondrial DNA, The First Americans

Just when you thought everything was starting to make sense – new genetic research on the peopling of the Americas throws us a curve.
There has been plenty of research in both genetics and archaeology recently trying to figure out how the New World was colonized. Was it by boat or via the frozen wasteland [...]

Tags: Archaeology, Bering Strait, genetics, migration, Native Americans, PLoS, prehistory