Message #68222

[Bianca]

Confirming a South Pacific and Japanese Migration



Based on the mutations found in the mtDNA, most researchers think that groups A, C, and D
entered America from Siberia across Beringia some time around 35,000 B.C. Group B, they
assert, probably came to America from the South Pacific or Japan via boats. It is believed
the B groups began this migration not long after the A, C, and D groups arrived. However,
the majority of the B group arrived about 11,000 B.C. This leaves open the possibility of
several migrations by the B group from different locations.


It should be noted that a few geneticists have proposed that each of these four haplogroups
came in four separate migrations. And many Clovis supporters argue that all the groups migrated together.