[Aztlan] LARGE SCALE ATHAPASKAN GENETIC STUDY FINDINGS

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

A large genetic study of a small group of Athapaskans from the  
subarctic northwest to the southwestern US has been published in the  
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. The researchers came from  
universities in Illinois, California, Washington, Montana, Arizona  
and Mexico City.  The study focused on the Y chromosome of males in  
the ancestral line. This small group assimilated well and was so  
influential that the Athapaskan language dominates in large parts of  
the southwest. The Navajo and Apache descendants of this group speak  
a language related to Chipewyan, an Athapaskan language of the  
subarctic.

This group probably arrived in the southwest at a time of stress  
among groups living there. The study also found extensive mixing with  
European males. The study spanned groups from Alaska to the Yucatan,  
Hudson Bay and the southeast US.

The Athapaskan migrants did not seem to influence the physical  
landscape, architecture or cultural practices of the populations of  
the southwest. But their language became pre-dominant.

EurekAlert has the story here;
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/uoia-ycs071508.php

A tiny URL here;
http://tinyurl.com/63jzoc



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