The oldest genetic link between Asians and Native Americans was found in Siberia
DNA from a 14,000-year-old tooth sheds new light on the first Americans’ ancestry
![Siberia’s Selenga River](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/051920_bb_baikal_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Siberia’s Selenga River runs through an area near where researchers found a roughly 14,000-year-old human tooth that revealed a DNA link between people who lived in Siberia long ago and initial American settlers.
G. Pavlenok