Researchers from Spain, Russia and the United States have stated that the ancestors of the Native Americans did not come to the continent from Japan. Article by scientists published in PaleoAmerica magazine.
One of the most popular theories about the origin of the indigenous population of America says that their ancestors came about 15 thousand years ago from Japan along the Bering Isthmus. As evidence, points of throwing weapons found on the continent 14-16 thousand years old are cited, the execution technique of which is similar to that of the Native Americans and the ancient Japanese peoples of the Jomon culture, who inhabited the archipelago from 14 thousand years ago to 300 BC.
Researchers from the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the Department for the Study of Mammoth Fauna of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), together with colleagues from the United States and Spain, studied the structure of the teeth of ancient Americans and representatives of the Jomon culture. It turned out that on 21 grounds the teeth of the indigenous people of America are quite different. So, in the ancient Indians, the central incisors were brought together and deployed relative to the axis, while the Jamonians had smoother front teeth.
Earlier studies of the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA obtained from the bones, male chromosomes also show that the peoples who lived in Japan most likely could not have been the ancestors of the ancient Americans – the latter common ancestor for the two groups lived much earlier than the intended migration. “We assume that the origins of the Native Americans lie somewhere in Siberia. But where exactly – we still have to find out, “- sums up the project manager for a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, senior researcher at the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Pitulko.