The baby's DNA showed that she belonged to a population that was genetically separate from other native groups present elsewhere in the New World at the end of the Pleistocene. Ben Potter, the University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist who unearthed the remains at the Upward Sun River site in 2013, named this new group Ancient Beringians.
The baby's DNA indicated that she belonged to a population separate from other native groups present in the New World by the end of the last Ice Age. Ben Potter, an archaeologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who uncovered the remains at the Upward Sun River site in 2013, named this new group Ancient Beringians.