Early human dispersals within the Americas

J Víctor Moreno-Mayar; Lasse Vinner; Peter de Barros Damgaard; Constanza de la Fuente; Jeffrey Chan; Jeffrey P Spence; Morten E Allentoft; Tharsika Vimala; Fernando Racimo; Thomaz Pinotti; Simon Rasmussen; Ashot Margaryan; Miren Iraeta Orbegozo; Dorothea Mylopotamitaki; Matthew Wooller; Clement Bataille; Lorena Becerra-Valdivia; David Chivall; Daniel Comeskey; Thibaut Devièse; Donald K Grayson; Len George; Harold Harry; Verner Alexandersen; Charlotte Primeau; Jon Erlandson; Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho; Silvia Reis; Murilo Q R Bastos; Jerome Cybulski; Carlos Vullo; Flavia Morello; Miguel Vilar; Spencer Wells; Kristian Gregersen; Kasper Lykke Hansen; Niels Lynnerup; Marta Mirazón Lahr; Kurt Kjær; André Strauss; Marta Alfonso-Durruty; Antonio Salas; Hannes Schroeder; Thomas Higham; Ripan S Malhi; Jeffrey T Rasic; Luiz Souza; Fabricio R Santos; Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas; Rasmus Nielsen; Yun S Song; David J. Meltzer; Eske Willerslev

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Early human dispersals within the Americas

J Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Lasse Vinner, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Constanza de la Fuente, Jeffrey Chan, Jeffrey P Spence, Morten E Allentoft, Tharsika Vimala, Fernando Racimo, Thomaz Pinotti, Simon Rasmussen, Ashot Margaryan, Miren Iraeta Orbegozo, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Matthew Wooller, Clement Bataille, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, David Chivall, Daniel Comeskey, Thibaut DevièseDonald K Grayson, Len George, Harold Harry, Verner Alexandersen, Charlotte Primeau, Jon Erlandson, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho, Silvia Reis, Murilo Q R Bastos, Jerome Cybulski, Carlos Vullo, Flavia Morello, Miguel Vilar, Spencer Wells, Kristian Gregersen, Kasper Lykke Hansen, Niels Lynnerup, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Kurt Kjær, André Strauss, Marta Alfonso-Durruty, Antonio Salas, Hannes Schroeder, Thomas Higham, Ripan S Malhi, Jeffrey T Rasic, Luiz Souza, Fabricio R Santos, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Rasmus Nielsen, Yun S Song, David J. Meltzer, Eske Willerslev^*

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Studies of the peopling of the Americas have focused on the timing and number of initial migrations. Less attention has been paid to the subsequent spread of people within the Americas. We sequenced 15 ancient human genomes spanning Alaska to Patagonia; six are ≥10,000 years old (up to ~18× coverage). All are most closely related to Native Americans, including an Ancient Beringian individual, and two morphologically distinct "Paleoamericans." We find evidence of rapid dispersal and early diversification, including previously unknown groups, as people moved south. This resulted in multiple independent, geographically uneven migrations, including one that provides clues of a Late Pleistocene Australasian genetic signal, and a later Mesoamerican-related expansion. These led to complex and dynamic population histories from North to South America.

Original language	English
Article number	eaav2621
Journal	Science
Volume	362
Issue number	6419
Number of pages	13
ISSN	0036-8075
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav2621
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Vinner, L., de Barros Damgaard, P., de la Fuente, C., Chan, J., Spence, J. P., Allentoft, M. E., Vimala, T., Racimo, F., Pinotti, T., Rasmussen, S., Margaryan, A., Iraeta Orbegozo, M., Mylopotamitaki, D., Wooller, M., Bataille, C., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Chivall, D., Comeskey, D., ... Willerslev, E. (2018). Early human dispersals within the Americas. Science, 362(6419), Article eaav2621. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav2621

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