{"id":6219,"date":"2014-02-14T20:52:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2014-02-14T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:54:29","slug":"recent-dna-breakthrough-oldest-genome-in-new-world-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/recent-dna-breakthrough-oldest-genome-in-new-world-recovered.html","title":{"rendered":"Recent DNA Breakthrough: Oldest Genome in New World Recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNA is unlocking the distant past of our family history. Researchers have looked again at previously found prehistoric skeletons and remains to see if they could harvest DNA. They were successful with the skeleton of an18-month-old boy from the Clovis period who died more than 12,000 years ago. His remains were found in 1968 in Montana.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent CBS News report, the DNA test results showed that: \u201cThe boy\u2019s genome also showed his people were direct ancestors of many of today\u2019s native peoples in the Americas, researchers said. He was more closely related to those in Central and South America than to those in Canada. The reason for that difference isn\u2019t clear, scientists said.\u201d The genome is the oldest ever successfully recovered from the New World.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly this was no random burial. The boy was found buried with over 125 artifacts, with the objects and the skeleton \u201ccovered with powdered red ochre, a natural pigment, indicating a burial ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6220\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-0214-2014-cbs-news-ancient-dna.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6220\" title=\"photo-0214-2014-cbs-news-ancient-dna\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-0214-2014-cbs-news-ancient-dna.png\" alt=\"a CBS News report of 12,000-year-old DNA being uncoded\" width=\"505\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-0214-2014-cbs-news-ancient-dna.png 505w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-0214-2014-cbs-news-ancient-dna-264x300.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: CBS News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read the entire story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/12000-year-old-baby-dna-unlocks-clues-to-earliest-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/12000-year-old-baby-dna-unlocks-clues-to-earliest-americans\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Spencer Wells is a leading population geneticist and Director of the\u00a0Genographic Project\u00a0sponsored by National Geographic and IBM.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6221\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-0214-2014-spencer-wells.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6221\" title=\"photo-0214-2014-spencer-wells\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-0214-2014-spencer-wells.png\" alt=\"a photo of Dr. Spencer Wells, a leading population geneticist and Director of the Genographic Project sponsored by National Geographic and IBM\" width=\"287\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dr. Spencer Wells. Credit: National Geographic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watch this quick clip of his remarks at RootsTech 2014:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UrYnkDRgrJI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch his complete presentation from the Friday morning session of RootsTech 2014. Speed forward to the 33 minute mark to begin watching his remarks: <a href=\"http:\/\/bcove.me\/ckiw2y5e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bcove.me\/ckiw2y5e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA is unlocking the distant past of our family history. Researchers have looked again at previously found prehistoric skeletons and remains to see if they could harvest DNA. They were successful with the skeleton of an18-month-old boy from the Clovis period who died more than 12,000 years ago. His remains were found in 1968 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[6415,6414,8,3775,6416,6413,6412,6410,1655,6303,6409,1213],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-cbs-news","tag-clovis","tag-dna","tag-dna-testing","tag-genographic-project","tag-genomes","tag-ibm","tag-national-geographic","tag-rootstech","tag-rootstech-2014","tag-spencer-wells","tag-wells"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}