Where do the indigenous people from America and South America came from? Who were their ancestors?

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Where do the indigenous people from America and South America came from? Who were their ancestors?

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Answer 1

There has been some good information indicating the closest existing old world population to the new world population are the Ainu people. These are people who used to occupy the Japanese islands. They were pushed out of most of Japan by an East Asian migration a bit over 2000 years ago. Now they’re mostly just on the island of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. In other words, whatever old world population populated the new world, they also populated the Japanese islands in the past, so Native Americans and Ainu have a common ancestor from 13,000-17,000 years ago.