The First Peoples in the Americas. Ancient DNA with Dr Jennifer Raff

Thanks to Dr Raff for the interview and for sharing the slides from one of her lectures to illustrate the video. Check out Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit...

Editing by Jonida Martini

Chapters
0:00:53. Introduction to Dr Raff and her interest in archaeogenetics
0:04:45. Updates, improvements, and new methods in the field of ancient DNA
0:07:12. Challenges and limitations to collecting ancient genomes
0:10:00. Contamination and ancient DNA laboratory set-ups
0:14:32. Dr Raff's interest and introduction to the topic of the peopling of the Americas
0:17:21. Clovis first and pre-Clovis models for the first Americans
0:26:35. Do things keep getting older? Archaeology and headlines
0:30:09. How geneticists examine migration, dispersal, and the first Americans
0:36:36. Modern DNA and ancient DNA. Updating and improving genetic models
0:39:55. Peoples in Beringia. Isolation, refugia, and populations
0:47:51. Peoples moving from Beringia into North and South America
0:54:06. How to date when two lineages last shared a common ancestor
0:57:20. Chronology for the peopling of the Americas: archaeology and DNA
1:01:42. Ethics and ancient DNA research. Permissions, ancestors, stakeholders, and science
1:08:45. Science, archaeology, history, mythology, and identity
1:12:07. Correcting the worst public misconception about DNA: there is no genetic purity.
1:14:25. Population Y: controversies and explaining the evidence
1:21:25. Exciting to look forward to what comes next

For more #RealArchaeology coming Oct 25th-27th, see www.real-archaeology.com

For more depth, Dr Raff recommended checking out this article: Willerslev and Meltzer 2021. "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

Keywords: Ancient DNA, aDNA, archaeogenetics, Genetics, First Americans, Peopling of the Americas, Clovis first, pre-clovis, archaeology, prehistory, history, Beringia, haplogroup, Indigenous Americans, archaeological ethics, ancestry, debunking, alt-history, fake history, real archaeology, evidence-based-content, Jennifer Raff, Flint Dibble