Prehistoric Hair Suggests 1st Eskimos Came From Asia

[Potoooooooo]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080529-eskimo-hair.html
A clump of frozen human hair from northwest Greenland suggests that the first Eskimos in the New World did not descend from Native Americans as previously thought but came directly from Asia, a new study says.

Furthermore, these pioneer settlers of the far north later died out and did not give rise to the Inuit living in Greenland today.

[lumax]

I read this and loved it - I think it is really amazing how much they are able to learn about early peoples origins from a simple clump of hair. Science is so cool:grin:

[AdamWho]

Didn't we already know this?

[premjan]

I think the Norse chronicles seem to show that the dominant population of Inuit changed while they were in residence in Greenland.