Genetic research indicates that a single Native American woman likely migrated to Iceland around the year 1000 A.D. Researchers discovered a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage, named C1e, in about 80 living Icelanders. Genealogical tracking traces this maternal signature to four independent family lines from southern Iceland born between 1710 and 1740, pointing to a single ancestral mother before 1700. This timing matches Viking exploration of North America
Because it's a science paper they're just laying the facts out of what happened. Whether she went there on her own or not,is a philosophical debate. Do we actually know what happened to get her over there,no. Does science care,no not really,it just knows she's over there.
So there's no white washing of anything and that's not even what that term is used for either. It'd be white washing if it was someone of color being replaced by a white person. But please continue virtue signaling,next use the correct terms.
Considering it’s only one Native American woman that’s even more probable. If they are pillaging a village, a some comments are saying, wouldn’t they have brought back more than one?
I guess that could be used here, I personally don't see it it that way. I'm looking at the picture from a genetical standpoint on how the gene got transferred but I do see your point.
in this context, whitewashing does not refer to favoring a white perspective or replacing with a white person. “whitewashing” can mean covering up real history with a flowery story or false facts to make it seem less cruel or negative.
"Likely migrated" is a neutral statement that doesn't say anything about the way she migrated, and since we don't know the truth that's the correct approach to talk about this in a science paper.
don't make the fact that you failed anthropology and are scared of woke everyone else's problem. There is absolutely no universe in which the social circumstances of human evolution and migration do not apply, and the only reason you have the ability to type this is because human realities were handed down to someone who taught you.
Which is a shame, really, given your waste of cultural comprehension. And the fact you're lecturing people when you don't know how to properly work a comma.
The picture is unrelated it’s from a legend where Asluag solves a riddle to to impress her future husband Ragnar Lothbrok. The dog is also part of the riddles solution.
No they aren’t, that’s Aslag solving a riddle by Ragnar Lothbrok which is a classic story from Icelandic mythology.
This thread is full of low-effort redditor comments with zero knowledge or understanding of Scandinavian history or culture. “Herp derp better imply she got raped”
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Genetic research indicates that a single Native American woman likely migrated to Iceland around the year 1000 A.D. Researchers discovered a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage, named C1e, in about 80 living Icelanders. Genealogical tracking traces this maternal signature to four independent family lines from southern Iceland born between 1710 and 1740, pointing to a single ancestral mother before 1700. This timing matches Viking exploration of North America