The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

摘要: Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 C-14 years before present (BP) (13,000 12,600 calendar BP)(1,2). Nearly 50 of research point Clovis as having developed south American ice sheets an ancestral technology(3). However, both origins genetic legacy people who manufactured tools remain under debate. It generally believed that these ultimately derived Asia were directly related contemporary Native Americans(2). An alternative, Solutrean, hypothesis posits predecessors emigrated southwestern Europe during Last Glacial Maximum(4). Here we report genome sequence a male infant (Anzick-1) recovered Anzick burial site western Montana. The human bones date 10,705 +/- 35 BP (approximately 12,707-12,556 BP) associated tools. We sequenced average depth 14.4x show gene flow Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal'ta population(5) into ancestors also shared by Anzick-1 individual thus happened BP. more closely all indigenous populations than any other group. Our data are compatible belonged population many Americans. Finally, find evidence deep divergence predates individual.