The 24,000-Year-Old Boy Buried With 120 Beads And A Mammoth-Ivory Tiara — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Hidden Source Of Native American Ancestry
The shared ancestor — the Ancient North Eurasian population — is real and significant.
But the cousins got to where they are today by completely separate routes.
The correct framing is: some Native American populations carry genetic ancestry derived from an ancient Siberian population whose genetic heritage was also ancestral, through a different pathway, to some components of modern western Eurasian populations.
The connection is real but ancient, and it says nothing about modern European identity or modern Native American identity.
The Beringia Connection
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