Back to the Drawing Board Yet AGAIN

[uniface]

https://www.sott.net/article/414410...Theory-of-Native-American-ancestors-rewritten

 

[Philvis]

I love how DNA testing is throwing the archaeological world in turmoil...this is coming from a former archaeologist. So many best guess theories are now being proven inaccurate.

 

[joshuaream]

Thanks for the link Uni, that is a good read!

I am certain there are a vast number of sites up there with amazing preservation, the issue is finding them, accessing them, and then chipping through the permafrost to excavate them.

A couple of times a year I fly back from Hong Kong to the States for meetings or family visits, and the routes take you up and over the Artic. You can fly for 4 hours at well over 500 mph on a clear night and see lights from a small town once or twice. If you fly over North Dakota or Montana, which are relatively sparsely populated, you might go a few minutes without seeing a light in the distance or a road carved out of the grass.




If you can track down a copy of it, the documentary Genesis 2.0 is a really neat one about this region and the local tribes that still hunt mammoths (they bring back tons of fossil mammoth ivory each year to feed China's hunger for little white carvings.)

https://genesis-two-point-zero.com/

 

[Charl]

There are actually two new studies:


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/indigenous-americans-siberia/



Here are the studies. There is no free access to Nature, but you can read the abstracts:


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1279-z



https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1251-y

Nothing surprising about "back to the drawing board" scenarios in science. Science, after all, is self correcting, or it is no longer science.

 

[Charl]

 

[Fred250]

I think this is the actual paper these articles are based off, from David Reich’s website. 80 pages so haven’t read it yet and it may not be the one.
https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/2019_Flegontov_Nature_Paleoeskimos_Supplement.pdf

 

[Charl]

I think this is the actual paper these articles are based off, from David Reich’s website. 80 pages so haven’t read it yet and it may not be the one.
https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites..._Flegontov_Nature_Paleoeskimos_Supplement.pdf

Yes, that's the supplementary material attached to the paper. You can also find this supplement at the bottom of the third link I left in comment #4. The actual paper still requires access. Supplementary material often exceeds in length the actual papers.