Modern Eskimos Not Related to Ancient Artic Inhabitants. NPR, June 1, 2008. "A 3,000-year-old clump of human hair found frozen in Greenland may have solved a scientific mystery: Where did all the ancient Eskimos come from?... By studying that DNA, researchers say they've been able to answer a longstanding question: Are modern Eskimos descended from ancient Native Americans, or did they come from somewhere else? The answer, according to a new study published in the current issue of the journal Science, is somewhere else -- probably eastern Asia... Some current residents of the southern Aleutian Islands and the Chutchi Peninsula of Siberia carry similar DNA... Since they aren't ancestors of Greenland's current Eskimos, Gilbert speculates, these ancient people may have later migrated from the Arctic due to climate changes that made survival difficult."
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