Media: NY Times: ''Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds''
| Submitter: |
Anthony Aristar
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| Submitter Email: | aristar@linguistlist.org |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Historical Linguistics Genetic Classification |
| Media Body: |
North and South America were first populated by three waves of migrants from Siberia rather than just a single migration, say researchers who have studied the whole genomes of Native Americans in South America and Canada. The finding vindicates a proposal first made on linguistic grounds by Joseph Greenberg, the great classifier of the world’s languages. He asserted in 1987 that most languages spoken in North and South America were derived from the single mother tongue of the first settlers from Siberia, which he called Amerind. Two later waves, he surmised, brought speakers of Eskimo-Aleut and of Na-Dene, the language family spoken by the Apache and Navajo. Read the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/science/earliest-americans-arrived-in-3-waves-not-1-dna-study-finds.html?_r=3 |
| Issue Number: | 23.3029 |
| Date Posted: | July 12, 2012 |
