The 11,500-Year-Old Baby Found In Alaska — And The DNA That Revealed A Lost Branch Of The First Americans
And it does not imply that there are living communities today that can claim to be purely or primarily Ancient Beringian in their ancestry.
The risk of the name is that it sounds like the name of a people — a specific, identifiable community — rather than what it actually is: a label for a position in a mathematical model of population genetic relationships.
In popular accounts, the Ancient Beringians have sometimes been described as a mysterious lost people, an ancient population that preceded the first Americans, a forgotten race.
All of these descriptions are wrong, and they are wrong in ways that matter.
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