A 4000-Year-Old Skeleton Found in China Revealed Native American DNA — This Doesn’t Make Sense

Описание: This video unravels one of the most shocking discoveries in modern archaeology and human genetics: a 14,000-year-old woman from southern China whose DNA is directly linked to Native Americans living thousands of miles away. Long misunderstood and overshadowed by the famous Tarim Basin mummies, this story focuses on the real mystery hidden in Red Deer Cave, Yunnan Province.

Using cutting-edge DNA extraction techniques, scientists recovered genetic material from an ancient skull once thought to belong to a different human species. Instead, the results revealed something far more extraordinary. This woman, known as Minghe Ren, was fully Homo sapiens—yet genetically connected to Indigenous populations across North and South America.

The video breaks down how this connection reshapes everything we thought we knew about the peopling of the Americas. It explores the Beringian Standstill Hypothesis, the idea of a “ghost population” stranded on a lost Ice Age subcontinent, and how ancient coastal migrations mixed northern and southern East Asian peoples long before recorded history.

Along the way, we examine extinct genetic lineages, Denisovan interbreeding, submerged landscapes, and why agriculture erased entire populations from Asia while their DNA survived across the ocean. This is not a lost continent myth—it’s a real, evidence-backed story of vanished people whose legacy lives on today.

00:00 Introduction
02:29 THE RED HERRING
06:32 THE DNA BOMBSHELL
09:44 THE GHOST CONTINENT
13:30 THE DEEPER EVIDENCE
17:13 THE WILD THEORIES
21:10 THE VERDICT

Primary Scientific Sources
•Red Deer Cave DNA Study (Minghe Ren)
Current Biology (2022) – Chinese Academy of Sciences
🔗 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...

➜ Confirms the 14,000-year-old Red Deer Cave individual was Homo sapiens and genetically linked to Native Americans.

•Tianyuan Cave Individual (40,000 years old)
Current Biology (Fu et al., 2013)
🔗 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...

➜ Shows early genetic ancestry shared between East Asians and Native Americans.

•Salkhit Skull – Mongolia (34,000 years old)
Nature Genetics (Massilani et al., 2020)
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

➜ Supports multiple migration waves into the Americas.

•Beringian Standstill Hypothesis
Nature / Science (David Reich et al., 2012–2021)
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...

🔗 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

➜ Establishes long-term isolation of ancestral Native Americans in Beringia.

•Coastal Migration & Archaeology

Kelp Highway Hypothesis & Coastal Route Evidence
Science Advances / PLOS ONE
🔗 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

🔗 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

➜ Supports early Pacific coastal migration before interior ice corridors opened.

14,800-Year-Old Footprints (British Columbia)
•PLOS ONE (2018)
🔗 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

➜ Physical proof of early coastal movement into the Americas.

•Denisovan Evidence (Southern & Central Asia)

Denisovan Jawbone – Xiahe, Tibet
Nature (2019)
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

➜ Confirms Denisovans lived in East Asia.

Denisovan DNA in Chinese Cave Sediments
Science (2020)
🔗 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

➜ Shows Denisovan presence without skeletal remains.

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