November
13
/ 2018
A new twist in the mapping of early human migrations into North and South America has occurred after DNA samples from the 10,000-year-old “Spirit Cave mummy,” unearthed in a cave in Nevada, revealed it’s the ancestor of a Native American tribe. The skeleton, a male aged around 40 at the time of his death, was found in a Nevada cave in 1940 wearing moccasins on his feet and with his body wrapped in a rabbit-skin blanket covered with reed mats. Now, Professor Eske Willerslev, who works with the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has published the Spirit Cave Mummy’s DNA sequencing in the journals Science, Science Advances, and Cell, and the results raise as many new questions
