RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 European admixture in Chinchorro DNA
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 132555
DO 10.1101/132555
A1 Robert Smith
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/01/132555.abstract
AB It is widely held that, except for migrations from Beringia or Siberia, there was no contact between the Old World and the New World prior to the colonization of North America by the Norse in the late 10th century AD. Analyses of 23 ancient American DNA samples reveal, however, the presence of European admixture in a sample taken from a Chinchorro mummy of northern Chile dated to 3972–3806 BC. This discovery implies a more complex history of the peopling of the Americas than previously accepted.