The Deep Time Context — Native American Ancestry And The Founding Of A Continent

The ancient Texas populations, and the questions their remains raise about ancient DNA and ancestry, are part of a much larger story that ancient genomics has been assembling over the past decade.

Modern ancient DNA science has been able to sequence the genomes of ancient individuals from across the Americas, illuminating the population history of the hemisphere in ways that were unimaginable a generation ago.

The picture that has emerged is of striking complexity.