The first Americans: different waves of migration to the New World inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence polymorphisms

• Main Authors: Horai, Satoshi, Kondo, Rumi, Sonoda, Shunro, Tajima, Kazuo
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University PressOxford 1995
• Subjects: Pacific; Bering Land Bridge
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198523185.003.0018; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52426048/isbn-9780198523185-book-part-18.pdf

Abstract Mongoloid descendants are now distributed over a wide area of the Pacific-rim region, having adapted to a variety of environments. One of the major issues for research into the prehistoric dispersal of Asiatic Mongoloid peoples is the question of the first Americans, the ‘peopling of the New World’. No authority doubts that the ancestors of Native Americans came from northeast Asia across the Bering land bridge, then dispersed and settled in various parts of the Americas, and finally reached the southernmost part of South America. How ever, when they came and with what genetic backgrounds and cultures is not yet fully resolved.