The 11,500-Year-Old Baby Found In Alaska — And The DNA That Revealed A Lost Branch Of The First Americans
They were Native American in the full genetic sense.
They were human in every other sense.
And the infant who represents them in the scientific record was a baby buried in a hearth in Alaska by people who loved her.
The name Ancient Beringian can be used carefully, as it was intended.
It can also be misused, in ways that the scientific team that coined it would not have endorsed.
Using it carefully means keeping in mind that it refers to a genetic lineage — a position in a family tree — and not to a separate, non-Native founding group.
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