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  • The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

    Author(s)
    Rasmussen, Morten
    Sikora, Martin
    Albrechtsen, Anders
    Korneliussen, Thorfinn S.
    Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor
    Poznik, G. David
    Zollikofer, Christoph P. E.
    Ponce de Leon, Marcia S.
    Allentoft, Morten Erik
    Moltke, Ida
    Jonsson, Hakon
    Valdiosera, Cristina
    Malhi, Ripan S.
    Orlando, Ludovic
    Bustamante, Carlos D.
    Stafford Jr, Thomas W.
    Meltzer, David J.
    Nielsen, Rasmus
    Willerslev, Eske
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Willerslev, Eske
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Kennewick Man, referred to as the Ancient One by Native Americans, is a male human skeleton discovered in Washington state (USA) in 1996 and initially radiocarbon dated to 8,340–9,200 calibrated years before present (bp)1. His population affinities have been the subject of scientific debate and legal controversy. Based on an initial study of cranial morphology it was asserted that Kennewick Man was neither Native American nor closely related to the claimant Plateau tribes of the Pacific Northwest, who claimed ancestral relationship and requested repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ...
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    Kennewick Man, referred to as the Ancient One by Native Americans, is a male human skeleton discovered in Washington state (USA) in 1996 and initially radiocarbon dated to 8,340–9,200 calibrated years before present (bp)1. His population affinities have been the subject of scientific debate and legal controversy. Based on an initial study of cranial morphology it was asserted that Kennewick Man was neither Native American nor closely related to the claimant Plateau tribes of the Pacific Northwest, who claimed ancestral relationship and requested repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The morphological analysis was important to judicial decisions that Kennewick Man was not Native American and that therefore NAGPRA did not apply. Instead of repatriation, additional studies of the remains were permitted2. Subsequent craniometric analysis affirmed Kennewick Man to be more closely related to circumpacific groups such as the Ainu and Polynesians than he is to modern Native Americans2. In order to resolve Kennewick Man’s ancestry and affiliations, we have sequenced his genome to ∼1× coverage and compared it to worldwide genomic data including for the Ainu and Polynesians. We find that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other population worldwide. Among the Native American groups for whom genome-wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville), one of the five tribes claiming Kennewick Man. We revisit the cranial analyses and find that, as opposed to genome-wide comparisons, it is not possible on that basis to affiliate Kennewick Man to specific contemporary groups. We therefore conclude based on genetic comparisons that Kennewick Man shows continuity with Native North Americans over at least the last eight millennia.
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    Journal Title
    Nature
    Volume
    523
    Issue
    7561
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14625
    Subject
    Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172171
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