After asserting hunting rights tied to historic treaties in recent years, the Nez Perce and three other tribes already hunt those bison that
follow ancient migration routes outside the park and into Montana in search of winter range.
Putting together the genetic data on the
ancient and modern samples, namely those already present in the literature and those analysed in this study, researchers have now proposed the
following scenario to explain the Iceman's genetic history: Ötzi's paternal lineage, G2a, is part of an
ancient genetic substrate that arrived in Europe from the Near East with the
migrations of the first Neolithic peoples some 8,000 years ago.