dc.contributor.author | Bradley, Bruce A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Oppenheimer, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Stanford, Dennis J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-07T10:08:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-10-31 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Solutrean Hypothesis for the origin of the Clovis archaeological culture has received numerous challenges and critiques. Oft-repeated contra-assertions, predominantly from archaeologists, range from: “NO genetic evidence”, to: it must have been either a sole Beringian or European origin, so Beringia wins, to: the troublesome fifth American mtDNA lineage “X2a” overlanded from West-Eurasia to Beringia, leaving no trace en-route, to: there is no evidence from the rest of the genome to parallel X2a. We refute these contra-assertions, detailing published contrary evidence, supporting a West-Eurasian origin for some Native American ancestors, mainly found in north-eastern America, in parallel to the majority arriving from Beringia. Specifically this includes mtDNA-X2a found in ancient and modern Native American populations, with no evidence to support migration of X2a through Siberia. Prima facie (i.e. under-researched) published evidence also exists for equivalent levels of West-Eurasian Y-chromosomes and autosomal markers in the same regions. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 752 - 774 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00438243.2014.966273 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17123 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/bradley/ | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273#.VUs1TJ1wbcs | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Temporary embargo required due to publisher policy. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Archaeogenetics | en_GB |
dc.subject | migrations | en_GB |
dc.subject | Solutrean Hypothesis | en_GB |
dc.subject | Palaeo-Americans | en_GB |
dc.subject | mtDNA | en_GB |
dc.subject | aDNA | en_GB |
dc.title | Solutrean hypothesis: genetics, the mammoth in the room | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0043-8243 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | UK | |
dc.description | © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in World Archaeology on 31/10/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00438243.2014.966273. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1470-1375 | |
dc.identifier.journal | World Archaeology | en_GB |