Linguistic and Genetic (mtDNA) Connections between Native Peoples of Alaska and California : Ancient Mariners of the Middle Holocene

native coastal communities. Other significant findings explored in this book are the lack of compelling evidence for the kinship of Eskimo and Aleut peoples, despite scholarship's long-term acceptance of this proposal, and the discovery of language-structure features shared by Yeniseian and Na Dene, indicating an historical connection for these circumarctic languages. [Publisher's text]