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SUBMITTER: Knapp M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3494939 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Knapp Michael M Horsburgh K Ann KA Prost Stefan S Stanton Jo-Ann JA Buckley Hallie R HR Walter Richard K RK Matisoo-Smith Elizabeth A EA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121022 45
The dispersal of modern humans across the globe began ~65,000 y ago when people first left Africa and culminated with the settlement of East Polynesia, which occurred in the last 1,000 y. With the arrival of Polynesian canoes only 750 y ago, Aotearoa/New Zealand became the last major landmass to be permanently settled by humans. We present here complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the likely founding population of Aotearoa/New Zealand recovered from the archaeological site of Wairau Bar. T ...[more]