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    Default DNA Reveals Clues About a Mysterious Ancient Culture




    Burials from a cave in Morocco have yielded the oldest human DNA evidence
    yet from Africa, offering new insight into Stone Age migrations.The DNA
    samples come from one of the most ancient cemeteries in the world, the
    Grotte des Pigeons, near the village of Taforalt in northeast Morocco.




    Beginning around 15,000 years ago, a culture of hunter-gatherers buried their dead with animal horns and other adornments inside this cave. Though burials were found as recently as 2006, archaeologists have been excavating the cave since the 1940s.

    The name 20th-century researchers gave to this culture —the Iberomaurusians—reflects the theory that the people who lived in this corner of North Africa were closely connected to Europe, and perhaps migrated across the Mediterranean by boat or a land bridge from the Iberian Peninsula or Sicily. Iberomaurusian sites have been found across the Maghreb, the area between the Atlas Mountains that span Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and the Mediterranean Sea. Some archaeologists had argued that small blades from sites like the Grotte des Pigeonsresembled the stone tools of the Gravettian culture, which was widespread across southern Europe during the Upper Paleolithic (which lasted from about 50,000 to 10,000 years ago). Today, North Africans have a large amount of European DNA.

    But the new DNA evidence tells a different story about the origins of the Iberomaurusians. During recent excavations led by the University of Oxford at the Grotte des Pigeons, archaeologists saved the inner-ear petrous bones, a good source for ancient DNA. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, in Jena, Germany, extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on only from mothers to their children, from seven individuals, as well as nuclear DNA, which is inherited from both parents, from five of the skeletons.

    “Due to challenging conditions for DNA preservation, relatively few ancient genomes have been recovered from Africa, and none of them so far predate the introduction of agriculture in North Africa,” Marieke van de Loosdrecht, an archaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, said in a statement.

    Contrary to the theory that Europeans from Sicily or the Iberian Peninsula were buried at Grotte des Pigeons, the analysis revealed no genetic link to southern Europe. Instead, the results, which were reported March 15 in the journal Science, showed that about two-thirds of the Iberomaurusian DNA matched closely with that of ancient Natufians, a later culture that existed in the Middle East, which suggests the Grotte des Pigeons people and the Natufians shared common ancestors from North Africa or the Middle East.

    About one-third of the Iberomaurusian DNA resembled the DNA of sub-Saharan Africans, which was perhaps inherited from more ancient ancestors or was contributed by contemporary Stone Age migrants, according to an accompanying news article in Science. The findings offer new evidence of early contacts between North Africa and the Near East, and regions south of the Sahara Desert, thought to be a major barrier to migration.

    Ancient DNA studies have exploded in Europe over the past couple of decades, covering a record of human history stretching back 40,000 years. Many of the labs where scientists study ancient DNA are located in Europe, and researchers have access to a wealth of well-preserved remains.

    The study of ancient African genomes has been much sparser. The researchers of the new study wrote that African sites tend to have more challenging conditions for DNA preservation; warmer temperatures tend to accelerate DNA decay. It was only in 2015 that researchers published the first African ancient genome, from 4,500-year-old human remains found in Ethiopia. Last year, scientists reported findings on ancient DNA from as early as 8,100 years ago, from human remains from southern and East Africa.





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    Default Re: DNA Reveals Clues About a Mysterious Ancient Culture

    then consider the Tuaregs in sub-Saharan Africa: if my read sources are correct they have black skin but have blue eyes; if true where for God's sake did they come from?

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    Default Re: DNA Reveals Clues About a Mysterious Ancient Culture

    Quote Posted by Cardillac (here)
    then consider the Tuaregs in sub-Saharan Africa: if my read sources are correct they have black skin but have blue eyes; if true where for God's sake did they come from?

    Larry
    Umm ... Cheddar?

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    First modern Britons had 'dark to black' skin, Cheddar Man DNA analysis reveals

    The genome of Cheddar Man, who lived 10,000 years ago, suggests that he had blue eyes, dark skin and dark curly hair.

    A forensic reconstruction of Cheddar Man’s head, based on the new DNA evidence and his fossilised skeleton. Photograph: Channel 4

    The first modern Britons, who lived about 10,000 years ago, had “dark to black” skin, a groundbreaking DNA analysis of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton has revealed.

    The fossil, known as Cheddar Man, was unearthed more than a century ago in Gough’s Cave in Somerset. Intense speculation has built up around Cheddar Man’s origins and appearance because he lived shortly after the first settlers crossed from continental Europe to Britain at the end of the last ice age. People of white British ancestry alive today are descendants of this population.

    It was initially assumed that Cheddar Man had pale skin and fair hair, but his DNA paints a different picture, strongly suggesting he had blue eyes, a very dark brown to black complexion and dark curly hair.

    The discovery shows that the genes for lighter skin became widespread in European populations far later than originally thought – and that skin colour was not always a proxy for geographic origin in the way it is often seen to be today.

    Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the project, said: “It really shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions, or very recent constructions, that really are not applicable to the past at all.”

    Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist at University College London and another member of the project’s team, agreed, saying the connection often drawn between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth. It has always changed and will change”.

    The findings were revealed ahead of a Channel 4 documentary, which tracked the ancient DNA project at the Natural History Museum in London as well as creating a new forensic reconstruction of Cheddar Man’s head.

    To perform the DNA analysis, museum scientists drilled a 2mm-diameter hole into the ancient skull to obtain a few milligrams of bone powder. From this, they were able to extract a full genome, which held clues about this ancient relative’s appearance and lifestyle.

    source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/...alysis-reveals


    As if things weren't confusing enough.

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    Default Re: DNA Reveals Clues About a Mysterious Ancient Culture

    Cheddar man wasn’t black, nor was he British, that was just part of the propoganda to gaslight Europeans into accepting more refugees. Cheddar man was predominantly hapolgroup U5, which is mostly of a Mongolian ethnicity.

    https://www.defendevropa.org/2018/he...#disqus_thread

    Quote Haplogroup U5 on the other hand, the foundation for Cheddar Man’s Y DNA, is almost non-existent in these regions. The only regions of Europe that have this Haplogroup in any concentration are the Sami regions of northern Scandinavia, the Inuit populations in Greenland and the Urals in Russia. It is no surprise, then, that these are Finno-Urgic peoples who more closely resemble Mongolians and the wider oriental world than they do Indo-Europeans. Notably England, where so-called Cheddar Man was discovered, can claim less than 5% U5 as the foundation for its native peoples’ Y DNA.

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    Quote Posted by Jayke (here)
    Cheddar man wasn’t black, nor was he British, that was just part of the propoganda to gaslight Europeans into accepting more refugees. Cheddar man was predominantly hapolgroup U5, which is mostly of a Mongolian ethnicity.

    https://www.defendevropa.org/2018/he...#disqus_thread

    Quote Haplogroup U5 on the other hand, the foundation for Cheddar Man’s Y DNA, is almost non-existent in these regions. The only regions of Europe that have this Haplogroup in any concentration are the Sami regions of northern Scandinavia, the Inuit populations in Greenland and the Urals in Russia. It is no surprise, then, that these are Finno-Urgic peoples who more closely resemble Mongolians and the wider oriental world than they do Indo-Europeans. Notably England, where so-called Cheddar Man was discovered, can claim less than 5% U5 as the foundation for its native peoples’ Y DNA.
    That means he would have had straight hair (not curly ones as in the pic) and paler skin than shown in the pic. Well, I believe you, propagandist stance under the scientific hat !!!!
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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    That means he would have had straight hair (not curly ones as in the pic) and paler skin than shown in the pic. Well, I believe you, propagandist stance under the scientific hat !!!!
    The other aspect of the propoganda was to say that “cheddar man is the oldest complete skeleton found in the UK”.

    OK, so what about all the incomplete skeletons that are much older than that? Such as the red lady of paviland, which has been dated to 33,000BC? Wonder why they haven’t done any DNA sequencing on this one yet?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lady_of_Paviland
    Quote The Red Lady of Paviland is a male Upper Paleolithic partial skeleton dyed in red ochre and buried in Britain 33,000 years ago.[1] It is the oldest known ceremonial burial in Western Europe.[2]

    The bones were discovered in the week of 18 January 1823, by Rev. William Buckland in an archaeological dig at Goat's Hole Cave — one of the limestone caves between Port Eynon and Rhossili, on the Gower Peninsula, south Wales.[3] Buckland believed the remains to be those of a female, dating to Roman Britain. Later analysis, however, showed the remains to have been of a young male.

    Goat's Hole was occupied repeatedly throughout prehistory. Artefacts are predominantly Aurignacian, but there are earlier Mousterian, and later Gravettian and Creswellian ones as well.[4]
    But to answer Larry’s question, the Tauregs are well known for being included in Berber traditions and customs. The native blonde hair and blue eyed inhabitants of Africa.


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