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posted by takyon on Tuesday January 09 2018, @02:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the Beringian-bridge dept.

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. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, et. al. Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature25173


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by jimshatt on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:15AM (2 children)

    by jimshatt (978) on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:15AM (#619953) Journal
    Literally, yes, you're quite right. Same goes for indigenous. Aboriginal, then? Pre-columbian settlers? Give the beast a name, it doesn't really matter. Because native Americans are a subject of study (in various fields, not just snowflakeology) it's quite useful to define terms.

    We use a lot of terms that are incorrect in a literal sense, and you don't complain about them (AFAIK), so why start now? Maybe someone stepped on your snowflaky toes?
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:46AM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:46AM (#619959) Homepage Journal

    Why this one? Because it sounds retarded and was created for nonexistent hurt feelz. I don't give a happy damn if a term isn't precise so long as it doesn't hit those criteria as well. African American annoys me as well, though it does make me laugh when the media has to figure out how to not say "black" when they're talking about a black person that's not from America.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Tuesday January 09 2018, @09:14PM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday January 09 2018, @09:14PM (#620218) Homepage
      "We don’t think Elba would be an amazing just because he’s African American—although you have to admit it’d be nice to finally have a James Bond whose skin tone isn’t somewhere between “Irish pale” and “translucent.”" -- Eric Spitznagel, /Men's Health/, October 9, 2015, https://www.menshealth.com/best-life/why-idris-elba-should-be-next-james-bond

      And yes, that's Idris Elba, the Londoner. And yes, that quote contains some truly terrible, as well as the absurdity.

      And as you can tell from my surname, Carmody, I have paternal Irish roots, and very pale skin to go along with it, so I'm now particularly now traumatised by the terrible racist triggering in that quoted sentence.
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