In the local people's tongue, her name means 'sunrise girl-child', and even though she only lived for six fleeting weeks, she's already told scientists more than we ever knew about the very first Native Americans.
Sunrise girl-child ("Xach'itee'aanenh T'eede Gaay") lived some 11,500 years ago in what is now called Alaska, and her ancient DNA reveals not only the origins of Native American society, but reminds the world of a whole population of people forgotten by history millennia ago.
"We didn't know this population existed," says anthropologist Ben Potter from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
"It would be difficult to overstate the importance of this newly revealed people to our understanding of how ancient populations came to inhabit the Americas."
[...] "[This is] the first direct evidence of the initial founding Native American population," Potter says. "It is markedly more complex than we thought."
Source: http://www.sciencealert.com/dna-11-000-years-ago-reveals-origins-native-americans-ancient-beringians
J. VĂctor Moreno-Mayar, et. al. Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature25173
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @02:44AM (2 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @02:58AM
You pay my rent into the one armed bandit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @05:32PM
oh that's hilarious. "squatting" on county or state land in a county and state your family helped build that some thieving feds now say is theirs.