A 24,000-year-old Siberian boy has finally been linked to Native Americans. According to RT.com, the boy's body was discovered by Russian archaeologists in the 1920s, lying under a slab of rock, wearing ancient jewelry -- an ivory diadem, a bird-shaped pendant and a bead necklacen-- all of which point to an Upper Paleolithic European culture. In a ground breaking two-decade long DNA study released earlier this week, scientists demonstrates that as "much as 30 percent of this brown-haired, freckled boy’s DNA can be found in modern Native Americans, which suggests that their modern population came directly from Siberia." The anthropological world is stunned by the new study. Here's why:
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