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<b>Understanding How Migration Patterns Shaped Native Ethnicity, Language</b></h1><div class="" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:left">
August 20, 2013</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:left">
During the past 12,000 years, the rich diversity of <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/topics/native-american/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(19,83,154)">Native American</a> ethnic and language groups of California took shape as migrating tribes. They settled first on the lush Pacific coast and then in progressively drier, less-vegetated habitats, according to a new study led by the University of Utah and published online in the<em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/13/1302008110.abstract?sid=ebe20e72-a555-402b-a4c6-7444c4e82b22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(19,83,154)">PNAS</a>)</em>.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:left">“Trying to explain why linguistic diversity is high in some places and low in others has been a big issue in anthropology,” says <a href="https://faculty.utah.edu/u0850178-Brian_F_Codding/contact/index.hml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(19,83,154)">Brian Codding</a>, an assistant professor of anthropology.</p>
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Access full article below: </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112927109/native-american-migration-shape-ethnicity-language-082013/">http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112927109/native-american-migration-shape-ethnicity-language-082013/</a><br>
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