Ancient Beringian

The Ancient Beringians are the earliest known population of North America. They migrated from Beringia into Alaska  sometime before 11,500 years ago. They separated from other Paleo-Indians about 20,000 years ago. The discovery of an "Ancient Beringian" genome from the remains of two infants dated to 11,500 years ago was announced in January 2018.[1][2] The Ancient Beringians remained in the Arctic until they either became extinct or amalgamated with the Dene about five to six thousand years ago.

The Ancient Beringian were hunter-gatherers.  They ate wild plants and wild animals. Some of the animals they ate were salmon,[3][4] ptarmigan, and ground squirrels.[5]

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  1. ↑ Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor; Potter, Ben A.; Vinner, Lasse; Steinrücken, Matthias; Rasmussen, Simon; Terhorst, Jonathan; Kamm, John A.; Albrechtsen, Anders; Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo; Sikora, Martin; Reuther, Joshua D.; Irish, Joel D.; Malhi, Ripan S.; Orlando, Ludovic; Song, Yun S.; Nielsen, Rasmus; Meltzer, David J.; Willerslev, Eske (2018), "Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans", Nature, 553 (7687), Macmillan Publishers Limited: 203–207, doi:10.1038/nature25173, PMID 29323294, S2CID 4454580, retrieved January 3, 2018
  2. ↑ Price, Michael (January 3, 2018), "Ancient Americans arrived in a single wave, Alaskan infant's genome suggests", Science, 359, Issue 6371, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  3. ↑ Horne, Naomi (September 21, 2015). "Earliest evidence of ancient North American salmon fishing verified". University of Alaska Fairbanks. Archived from the original on January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ Halffman, Carrin, "Human use of Salmon in North America at 11,500 years ago", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, archived from the original on January 1, 2018, retrieved January 7, 2018
  5. ↑ Wren, Kathy (February 24, 2011). "Science: Child's Cremation Site Reveals Domestic Life in Paleoindian Alaska". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved January 7, 2018.