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Two contemporaneous mitogenomes from terminal Pleistocene burials in eastern Beringia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Nov 2015
Tackney Justin C, Potter Ben A, Raff Jennifer, Powers Michael, Watkins W Scott, Warner Derek, Reuther Joshua D, Irish Joel D, O'Rourke Dennis H
Abstract excerpt
Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials (USR1 and USR2) from a common interment at the Upward Sun River Site in central Alaska dating to ∼11,500 cal B.P. Using a targeted capture method and...
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