The 12,000-Year-Old Girl Found Deep Inside A Flooded Cave — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
The result was not a complete genome — the preservation was not good enough for that.
But it was sufficient to determine Naia’s mitochondrial haplogroup, and mitochondrial haplogroup data — information about the specific lineage of mitochondrial DNA inherited from the mother’s mother’s mother’s line going back indefinitely — was exactly the kind of data that could address the continuity question directly.
Naia’s mitochondrial haplogroup was D1.
Haplogroup D1 is one of the founding mitochondrial haplogroups of the Americas.
It is found in Indigenous American populations across the hemisphere — from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego.
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