Dan. The article says:
"they were of a man who lived between 5,000 and 9,500 years ago."
This would indicate a pretty rapid genocide for the relatively primitive weapons available. The technology used in Rwanda, Darfur, and Bosnia is far more advanced.
You wrote:
"Not related to any known American Indian ancestry."
How can you say that? There has been no genetic work done on the skeleton. It's extremely likely it represents one of the several migrations into America that gave rise to the pre-European population. We know from Y-chromosome evidence that part of that population moved north of the Central Asian mountains, and probably had their origin with the mammoth hunting people of the Central Asian steppes. Although mitochondrial DNA shows the female side probably came from Mongolia, North China and Korea the present Native Americans look fairly different from the present East Asian people. They are almost certainly a mix of several different kinds (how I love that word) of people, as are all other groups on earth. Including those who like to believe they are unique.
