NUTR 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Beringia, Solutrean, Bluefish Caves
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Hypotheses for route of migration to the new world (continued: bering land bridge hypothesis. The bering land bridge was available 35,000-11,000 years ago: pacific coastal route, north atlantic ice edge (solutrean) - there is no evidence to support this route. Evidence that demonstrates the relationship between asian and indigenous north and south. American populations includes: physical characteristics (example dental morphology, dna evidence - mitochondrial dna and comparison of y-chromosomes of living northeast asian and new world populations show a shared genetic inheritance. The anzick site, montana: clovis burial that dates almost 13,000 years ago. Dna recovered from the skeletal remains confirms shared genetic ancestry between clovis and northeast asian populations. The clovis child is closely related to indigenous people from the americas. Discussion of late pleistocene sites in east asia including: Sk (sopochnaya karya) mammoth site - 45,000 years ago. Bluefish caves, yukon: 15,000 to 12,000 years ago. Paisley 5 mile point caves, oregon: 14,300 years ago.
