First Results of the “Proyecto de investigación de poblaciones antiguas en el norte y occidente de México”

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Increasing the Accessibility of Ancient DNA within Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Genomic analytical techniques have matured enough to address longstanding problems about the interactions and migrations of ancient populations inhabiting the north and west border of Mesoamerica, as well with populations from the US Southwest. With this in mind, we have established a collaborative, binational project between INAH and Harvard University, which we intend to be the largest such effort for the study of ancient populations in the aforementioned regions. We attempt to understand the phylogenetic relationships among the populations of these areas during the period between AD 600 and 1500. Twenty archaeologists and a group of geneticists collaborate to address how and when the populations from western and northern Mexico moved across the northern border of Mesoamerica, as well as the impact of such movement on northwest Mexico and the American Southwest. In this paper, we present the first results of the study.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Increasing the Accessibility of Ancient DNA within Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 29873