ANC-E

The eclipse allowed an extra day to ponder, hopefully free of bias, the Blackfoot paper. The important takeaway is the existence of a ANC-E.

This blog before June 2022 was aware of -A (red on the barchart) and -B (purple). No pure -B survived to Columbus, probably not even Erikson; pure -A by contrast own "Latin" America, aside from a few Melanesians in the Amazon (which is quite-another strange story). Anzick was mostly -A; likewise, I strongly suspect, Clovis. Ojibwe are near-50/50 A+B; that's not too far east of the Blackfoot headwater.

ANC-E (yellow) broke off before the A/B split. This is like the Sonora Ghost. That is: we have archaeology of ANC-E but had seen no descendents... yet.

Blackfoot are mostly that A+B mix too. Also some modern descendents are part white (blue on the chart, because of our big throbbing veins, I dunno). What is getting everyone excited is that they have that yellow portion still: ANC-E. Nobody else still has this.

Stonetoss should update his comic to include a NSFW panel, just for the Blackfoot (and for his own people). Demic diffusions were not entirely violent.