Five centuries before Columbus came to America, the Vikings settled briefly at the northern tip of Newfoundland. Now
DNA reveals four Icelandic families was not just the Europeans who travel to the Americas ... at least one Native American returned with them. Once
Icelanders have a rare variant of mitochondrial DNA known as C1e.
This particular variant is closely related to those found in native Americans, but virtually unknown in Europe. Mitochondrial DNA is transmitted only by the mother, so that the common ancestor that originally owned the C1e must have been a woman.
Research shows that all these people are descendants of those generations of Icelanders over 5 centuries ago, ie, DNA mitochonidrial can not have come from a relatively recent immigrant. Indeed, based on centuries of isolation Iceland, the only real way to account for this finding is that an Indian woman and had children lived in Iceland 1000 years ago.
Of course, it fits perfectly with the Viking expeditions known in the Americas, but until now it was thought the only Europeans who made the trip across the Atlantic. Now we know at least one Native American woman made the trip, and it is possible that new DNA research in the future perhaps they can reveal if other Native Americans that came with it.
Either way, it means that this woman was the first Native American to set foot on European soil, and in fact is very possible that she fuesra the first inhabitant of the Americas to visit the mainland of Eurasia, from which their ancestors crossed the Bering Strait about 14,000 years ago does.
DNA reveals four Icelandic families was not just the Europeans who travel to the Americas ... at least one Native American returned with them. Once
Icelanders have a rare variant of mitochondrial DNA known as C1e.
This particular variant is closely related to those found in native Americans, but virtually unknown in Europe. Mitochondrial DNA is transmitted only by the mother, so that the common ancestor that originally owned the C1e must have been a woman.
Research shows that all these people are descendants of those generations of Icelanders over 5 centuries ago, ie, DNA mitochonidrial can not have come from a relatively recent immigrant. Indeed, based on centuries of isolation Iceland, the only real way to account for this finding is that an Indian woman and had children lived in Iceland 1000 years ago.
Of course, it fits perfectly with the Viking expeditions known in the Americas, but until now it was thought the only Europeans who made the trip across the Atlantic. Now we know at least one Native American woman made the trip, and it is possible that new DNA research in the future perhaps they can reveal if other Native Americans that came with it.
Either way, it means that this woman was the first Native American to set foot on European soil, and in fact is very possible that she fuesra the first inhabitant of the Americas to visit the mainland of Eurasia, from which their ancestors crossed the Bering Strait about 14,000 years ago does.
photo. L! Anse aux Meadows. (Vikings in Amerika)
Source:
A new subclade of mtDNA haplogroup found C1 in Icelanders: Evidence of pre-Columbian contact? American Journal of Phisical
Antropology. Fan
A new subclade of mtDNA haplogroup found C1 in Icelanders: Evidence of pre-Columbian contact? American Journal of Phisical
Antropology. Fan
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