The 31,000-Year-Old Children’s Teeth Found Above The Arctic Circle — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Lost Ice Age Population Connected To Native American Origins
As Sikora was careful to note: “We could show that despite being related to one of the ancestral lineages of Native Americans, the peoples at Yana were not their direct ancestors.”
But they were part of the same story.
They belonged to a branch of the human family that was mixing, shifting, contributing genetic material across the vast landscapes of the Pleistocene Arctic and sub-Arctic, and from those mixtures and movements eventually came the populations that would cross into the Americas and spread across two continents.
The Ancient North Siberians were not the source.
They were a related tributary, a parallel expression of the ancient genetic diversity that ultimately converged in the founding of the Americas.