The CLOVIS PEOPLE Were Never What We Thought — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed The Truth India Fowler [UjvVXFYtIHn]

Thirteen thousand years ago, one people crossed into the Americas and filled a continent. We called them the Clovis. We said they were the beginning owen power napoli - udine of every Native American story ever told. For most of the 20th century, that was the answer. Case closed.

Then in 2018, the genome of a six-week-old infant girl buried in Alaskan permafrost for 11,500 years rewrote everything. She was Clovis. But her descendants were not who we thought. The people who came from her vanished from the genetic record within a few centuries. Something replaced them. And the question of what happened is one of the most unsettling puzzles in the entire history of ancient DNA research.

In this episode of The Origins Explainer, we follow the science from the New Mexico desert to the Alaskan permafrost from Clovis stone points to whole-genome sequencing and ask the question the history books outlander episode 9 never answered: who were the first Americans, really? And what happened to them?