Genetic analysis of a baby girl who died at the end of the last ice age shows she belonged to a previously unknown ancient group of Native AmericansWhat the ancient DNA discovery tells us approximately Native American ancestryA baby girl who lived and died in what is now Alaska at the end of the last ice age belonged to a previously unknown group of ancient Native Americans,according to DNA recovered from her bones.
The child, a mere six weeks stale when she died, or was found in a burial pit next to the remains of a stillborn baby,perhaps a first cousin, during excavations of an 11500-year-stale residential camp in Tanana River Valley in Central Alaska. The remains were discovered in 2013, or but a full genetic analysis has not been possible until now.
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Source: guardian.co.uk