Bidirectional dispersals during the peopling of the North American Arctic

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Luis, Javier Rodriguez, Palencia-Madrid, Leire, Garcia-Bertrand, Ralph, Herrera, Rene J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; The ''Y''; Tuva; Barrow; inuit; Thule; Alaska; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9871004/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36690673; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28384-8

It is thought that Paleo-Inuit were the first people that settled the American Arctic about 5000 BP (before the present) from a migration that crossed Beringia from Northeast Asia. It is theorized that this group initially migrated to the North Slopes of Alaska and subsequently expanded eastward, ev...