Native American family tree sprouts a new branch
A six-week old infant who died some 11,500 years ago in central Alaska is now providing clues about how the Americas first came to be populated.
Genomic data from remains of the girl – named “Xach'itee'aanenh T'eede Gaay” (Sunrise Girl-Child) by the local indigenous community – broadly support a migration model that scientists have long argued for, while also revealing the existence of an ancient population previously unknown to
