See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4650307.stm
"Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence." ****** --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SNIP > Good site: lineages.http://www.duerinck.com/migrate.html > > Anthropologists have long speculated on the origins of the native > populations in the Americas. One of the more recent theories holds > that three distinct waves of immigrants--corresponding to three > proposed linguistic groups among Native Americans (Amerind, Na-Dene > and Eskaleut)--crossed the Bering strait from Asia no earlier than > 13,000 years ago. Molecular anthropologist Theodore Schurr's research > on genetic variation in the mitochondrial DNA of native populations in > Asia and the Americas casts some doubt on this view. His research > suggests that the first Americans may have come to the New World more > than 30,000 years ago. Although there is concordance between the > linguistic and genetic affinities of Na-Dene Indians and > Eskimo-Aleuts, this type of linkage is less robust for the so- called > Amerinds. According to Schurr the genetic evidence is, instead, more > consistent with a complex migration pattern involving at least two > ancient expansions of ancestral populations who may have come from > widely separated parts of the Asian continent, as well as the > re-expansion of Beringian populations into the New World following the > last period of glaciation. > > http://www.americanscientist.org/template/Login;jsessionid=baa47lNtD9 Pzjr? nextpage=AssetDetail&print=yes&assetid=14727&fulltext=true&message=Pa geAccessDeniedMessage#23964 > > The above site has a good haplogroup map of genetic migration to NA To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
