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dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, Morten
dc.contributor.authorAnzick, Sarah L.
dc.contributor.authorWaters, Michael R.
dc.contributor.authorSkoglund, Pontus
dc.contributor.authorDeGiorgio, Michael
dc.contributor.authorStafford Jr, Thomas W.
dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, Simon
dc.contributor.authorMoltke, Ida
dc.contributor.authorAlbrechtsen, Anders
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, Shane M.
dc.contributor.authorPoznik, G. David
dc.contributor.authorGudmundsdottir, Valborg
dc.contributor.authorYadav, Rachita
dc.contributor.authorMalaspinas, Anna-Sapfo
dc.contributor.authorWhite V, Samuel Stockton
dc.contributor.authorAllentoft, Morten Erik
dc.contributor.authorCornejo, Omar E.
dc.contributor.authorTambets, Kristiina
dc.contributor.authorEriksson, Anders
dc.contributor.authorHeintzman, Peter D.
dc.contributor.authorKarmin, Monika
dc.contributor.authorKorneliussen, Thorfinn S.
dc.contributor.authorMeltzer, David J.
dc.contributor.authorPierre, Tracey
dc.contributor.authorStenderup, Jesper
dc.contributor.authorSaag, Lauri
dc.contributor.authorWarmuth, Vera M.
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Margarida C.
dc.contributor.authorWillerslev, Eske
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-08T06:09:21Z
dc.date.available2017-12-08T06:09:21Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn0028-0836
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/nature13025
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/172199
dc.description.abstractClovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 14C years before present (bp) (13,000 to 12,600 calendar years bp)1,2. Nearly 50 years of archaeological research point to the Clovis complex as having developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology3. However, both the origins and the genetic legacy of the people who manufactured Clovis tools remain under debate. It is generally believed that these people ultimately derived from Asia and were directly related to contemporary Native Americans2. An alternative, Solutrean, hypothesis posits that the Clovis predecessors emigrated from southwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum4. Here we report the genome sequence of a male infant (Anzick-1) recovered from the Anzick burial site in western Montana. The human bones date to 10,705 ± 35 14C years bp (approximately 12,707–12,556 calendar years bp) and were directly associated with Clovis tools. We sequenced the genome to an average depth of 14.4× and show that the gene flow from the Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal’ta population5 into Native American ancestors is also shared by the Anzick-1 individual and thus happened before 12,600 years bp. We also show that the Anzick-1 individual is more closely related to all indigenous American populations than to any other group. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that Anzick-1 belonged to a population directly ancestral to many contemporary Native Americans. Finally, we find evidence of a deep divergence in Native American populations that predates the Anzick-1 individual.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNature Publishing
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom225
dc.relation.ispartofpageto229
dc.relation.ispartofissue7487
dc.relation.ispartofjournalNature
dc.relation.ispartofvolume506
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPopulation, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode060411
dc.titleThe genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.griffith.authorWillerslev, Eske


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