Pacific Coastal Migration Route

Several migration routes have been suggested for the arrival of the first Americans. Part of the current research project is to test the Pacific Coast Migration Route using DNA information from the first Mexicans including comparisons between the genetic affinity of the Peñon Woman III (with an age of around 13,000 years old) and other paleoamericans included in the Preceramic Collection at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

The genetic information from these ancient populations will be compared agaist modern populations especially the Pericues, a hunter-gatherer group from the Southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula which became extinct at the end of the 18th Century. The Pericues have been associated in the past with the First Americans due to their skull characteristics. This type of scientific information will clarify any potential links between these different populations establishing potential migration routes across the Americas.

 

K = Kennewick man S = Spirit Cave Man Clo = Clovis Site M = Meadowcroft A= Arlington Springs, Santa Rosa Island Pe = Pericues P = Peñon Woman III J = Quebrada Jaguay L = Luzia Skull Mo = Monte Verde   = Human skeletons        = Early sites

 

Possible migration routes by humans into the Americas.

 

 

 

Peñon Woman skull	Pericue skull.