“Unraveling the Secrets of ‘Spirit Cave Man’: What Ancient DNA Reveals About Earth’s Oldest Mummy!”
Posth et al./CellA map showing the possible early migration routes into North and South America as posited by the Cell study.
This study comes as a part of a recent trio of studies that are changing the history of early humans in North and South America. A related study published in Cell also examines the movement of the first humans in the Americas and how they spread across the continents. The researchers used genetic tests to discover two previously unknown migrations from North to South America.
The third study, which was published in Science Advances, reveals the evolutionary path that one group of migrants went down after they decided to call the high-altitude Andres mountains their home. Looking at a window of 7,000 years ago to when Europeans first made contact, the team was able to identify any physical adaptation the people went through before the Europeans arrived roughly 500 years ago.
The recent influx of information regarding the Americas’ earliest human inhabitants is causing archaeologists and anthropologists to rethink what they know about American history, and it’s become clear that even more groundbreaking information has yet to be revealed.
Next, discover the story of Ishi, the “last” Native American. Then, take a look at how the discovery of an unknown native population rewrote the history of the first North Americans.
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