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THE PEOPLING OF THE NEW WORLD: Perspectives from Molecular Anthropology

Theodore G. Schurr

Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6398; email: tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu

▪ Abstract A number of important insights into the peopling of the New World have been gained through molecular genetic studies of Siberian and Native American populations. These data indicate that the initial migration of ancestral Amerindian originated in south-central Siberia and entered the New World between 20,000–14,000 calendar years before present (cal yr BP). These early immigrants probably followed a coastal route into the New World, where they expanded into all continental regions. A second migration that may have come from the same Siberian region entered the Americas somewhat later, possibly using an interior route, and genetically contributed to indigenous populations from North and Central America. In addition, Beringian populations moved into northern North America after the last glacial maximum (LGM) and gave rise to Aleuts, Eskimos, and Na-Dené Indians.

Amerind Genetics Altai Roots *Wontack Hong* Professor Emeritus, Seoul University BUILDING A MODEL FOR EAST ASIAN HISTORY Searching for a Plausible Framework of Analysis
Abstracts related to the Türkic History

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Foreword

Wontack Hong BUILDING A MODEL FOR EAST ASIAN HISTORY
THE ETHNOHISTORICAL SPHERE OF THE XIANBEI-TUNGUS The proto-Turko-Mongol populations who had first settled around Transbaikalia across the Great Altai seem to have dispersed further across the present-day Bering Strait (then a land strip called Beringia) into the Americas to become the native American populations, across the Greater Xing’an (aka Hingan) Range and the Amur River to become the proto-Xianbei-Tungus (Xianbei aka Syanbi) in Manchuria, and also across the Tatar Strait (at the mouth of Amur River) and the Sakhalin-Hokkai islands to become Ainu on the Japanese archipelago. An analysis of Mitochondrial DNA suggests that the first Americans descended from the people who had initially settled in the Altai Mountain area near Lake Baikal. According to Schurr (2000: 253), the highest frequencies of haplogroup A-to-D mtDNAs “occur in the Altai Mountain/ Tuva/Lake Baikal region, implying that this general region gave rise to the founders of Native American populations.” See also Relethford (2003: 115 and 133).
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Theodore G. Schurr THE PEOPLING OF THE NEW WORLD: Perspectives from Molecular Anthropology
Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 33: 551-583 (Volume publication date October 2004) (doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143932) THE PEOPLING OF THE NEW WORLD: Perspectives from Molecular Anthropology Theodore G. Schurr Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6398; email: tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu ▪ Abstract A number of important insights into the peopling of the New World have been gained through molecular genetic studies of Siberian and Native American populations. These data indicate that the initial migration of ancestral Amerindian originated in south-central Siberia and entered the New World between 20,000–14,000 calendar years before present (cal yr BP). These early immigrants probably followed a coastal route into the New World, where they expanded into all continental regions. A second migration that may have come from the same Siberian region entered the Americas somewhat later, possibly using an interior route, and genetically contributed to indigenous populations from North and Central America. In addition, Beringian populations moved into northern North America after the last glacial maximum (LGM) and gave rise to Aleuts, Eskimos, and Na-Dené Indians.