The late Pleistocene colonization of South America: an interdisciplinary perspective

F Rothhammer, TD Dillehay - Annals of human genetics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we briefly review scenarios for the first peopling of the New World, including
the Clovis First/Single Origin, Tripartite, and Dual Migration models. We then discuss …

A review of ancestrality and admixture in Latin America and the caribbean focusing on native American and African descendant populations

TC De Oliveira, R Secolin, I Lopes-Cendes - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Genomics can reveal essential features about the demographic evolution of a population
that may not be apparent from historical elements. In recent years, there has been a …

Insights into the genetic histories and lifeways of Machu Picchu's occupants

L Salazar, R Burger, J Forst, R Barquera, J Nesbitt… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Machu Picchu originally functioned as a palace within the estate of the Inca emperor
Pachacuti between~ 1420 and 1532 CE. Before this study, little was known about the people …

Genomic insights into the ancestry and demographic history of South America

JR Homburger, A Moreno-Estrada, CR Gignoux… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
South America has a complex demographic history shaped by multiple migration and
admixture events in pre-and post-colonial times. Settled over 14,000 years ago by Native …

Genetic variation and population structure in Native Americans

S Wang, CM Lewis Jr, M Jakobsson… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
We examined genetic diversity and population structure in the American landmass using
678 autosomal microsatellite markers genotyped in 422 individuals representing 24 Native …

Evolutionary genomic dynamics of Peruvians before, during, and after the Inca Empire

DN Harris, W Song, AC Shetty… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Native Americans from the Amazon, Andes, and coastal geographic regions of South
America have a rich cultural heritage but are genetically understudied, therefore leading to …

Genetic analysis of early holocene skeletal remains from Alaska and its implications for the settlement of the Americas

BM Kemp, RS Malhi, J McDonough… - American Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial and Ychromosome DNA were analyzed from 10,300yearold human
remains excavated from On Your Knees Cave on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (Site 49 …

Rapid coastal spread of First Americans: Novel insights from South America's Southern Cone mitochondrial genomes

M Bodner, UA Perego, G Huber, L Fendt… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
It is now widely agreed that the Native American founders originated from a Beringian
source population∼ 15–18 thousand years ago (kya) and rapidly populated all of the New …

An alternative model for the early peopling of southern South America revealed by analyses of three mitochondrial DNA haplogroups

M de Saint Pierre, CM Bravi, JMB Motti, N Fuku… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
After several years of research, there is now a consensus that America was populated from
Asia through Beringia, probably at the end of the Pleistocene. But many details such as the …

Continent-wide decoupling of Y-chromosomal genetic variation from language and geography in native South Americans

L Roewer, M Nothnagel, L Gusmão, V Gomes… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Numerous studies of human populations in Europe and Asia have revealed a concordance
between their extant genetic structure and the prevailing regional pattern of geography and …