News Finding: The genome sequence of an ancient human infant who lived in Alaska around 11,500 years ago is reported this week  
Paper Finding: Our findings further suggest that the far-northern North American presence of northern Native Americans is from a back migration that replaced or absorbed the initial founding population of Ancient Beringians.
News Context: The genome sequence of an ancient human infant who lived in Alaska around 11,500 years ago is reported this week  
Paper Context: , and that Native American gene flow into Inuits was through northern and not southern Native American groups . Our findings further suggest that the far-northern North American presence of northern Native Americans is from a back migration that replaced or absorbed the initial founding population of Ancient Beringians. Humans were present in the Americas south of the continental ice sheets by around .6 ka , indicating that they traversed Beringia earlier.