"Kennewick Man DNA Indicates Native American Ancestry"

[Dale Neiburg]

"Study shows the ancient remains are most closely related to the Coleville (sic) tribe."

--by Paula Neely, from American Archaeology, Fall 2015.

"Researchers in Denmark who analyzed ancient DNA from Kennewick Man recently reported that he shares ancestry with Native Americans from North America. The research, led by geneticist Eske Willersley, was conducted at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, a world leader in ancient DNA analysis.

"The researchers obtained a metacarpal bone specimen from the 8,500-year-old remains to sequence his genome, and then compared it to genome data worldwide. According to the study, they found that 'Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other population worldwide.'

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"Members of the Colville, one of the five confederated tribes that tried to claim Kennewick Man, provided saliva for Willersley's study. Researchers used DNA from two Colville members, as well as from Native Americans from other countries in the Americas."

[Jerry442]

1. Some facial reconstructions of "Kennewick Man"...

...bear an amazing resemblance to actor Patrick Stewart, best known for his portrayal of Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I'd assume that this is just a coincidence, unless the Borg pulled a fast one somehow.

[SunSeeker]

2. They initially thought him "caucasoid" because he was 5'9"

But he turns out to be a tall Native American, which makes way more sense.

Another interesting (and kinda scary) point I came across: nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s artificially altered the proportion of the carbonisotopes in the atmosphere, making radiocarbon dating after that time likely to be unreliable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_present