[Aztlan] THE BULK OF THE AMERICAS POPULATED BY ONE SIBERIAN GROUP

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

A consensus is emerging that the bulk of the Americas were settled  
15,000 years ago. An article in tomorrow's Science Magazine will show  
that the First Americans came from a single Siberian population and  
came across the land bridge 22,000 years ago, they got stuck in  
Alaska until 16,500 years ago due to glaciars blocking their path.  
The founding population was less than 5000 individuals.

The researchers studied 43 sites including a dozen in Asia to reach  
these conclusions. The founding population was in Siberia 30,000  
years ago, came across 22,000 years ago and got free of the glaciar  
blocking them about 15,000 years ago so they could move south.
The Pacific corridor may have been ice free 1000 years before the  
inland corridor so that the population spread first by way of a  
coastal route.

This study did not address the linguistic evidence I posted a few  
days ago about the population being stuck in Beringia rather than  
Alaska during that time period. This is an exciting time for First  
American studies.

National Geographic has the story here;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080313-first- 
americans.html

Mike Ruggeri



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