Migration back to Africa took place during the Paleolithic

EurekAlert! ^ | May 26, 2016 | University of the Basque Country

[SunkenCiv]

A piece of international research led by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has retrieved the mitogenome of a fossil belonging to the first Homo sapiens population in Europe.

The Palaeogenomics study conducted by the Human Evolutionary Biology group of the Faculty of Science and Technology, led by Concepción de la Rua, in collaboration with researchers in Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania, has made it possible to retrieve the complete sequence of the mitogenome of the Pestera Muierii woman (PM1) using two teeth. This mitochondrial genome corresponds to the now disappeared U6 basal lineage, and it is from this lineage that the U6 lineages, now existing mainly in the populations of the north of Africa, descend from.

So the study has not only made it possible to confirm the Eurasian origin of the U6 lineage but also to support the hypothesis that some populations embarked on a back-migration to Africa from Eurasia at the start of the Upper Palaeolithic, about 40-45,000 years ago. The Pestera Muierii individual represents one branch of this return journey to Africa of which there is no direct evidence owing to the lack of Palaeolithic fossil remains in the north of Africa.

[SunkenCiv]

The complete mitogenome of Pestera Muierii woman has been retrieved. [E. Trinkaus and A. Soficaru]

[BloodScarletMinnesota]

Paleolithic peoples drove African-Americans back to Africa?

Imagine that.

I suppose various academics in their various fields of study could use this information to prove 'scientifically' that non-blacks are "racist". (But not necessarily neolithic Asian-Americans).

[Cronos]

I think the ones that migrated back would have been speakers of the Afro-Asiatic languages (the speakers of what are now Semitic, Coptic, Berber and Amharic languages)

These peoples then migrated back to Asia and Europe after the last ice age -- the Akkadians moved into Sumeria around 3000 BC and Greek mythology tales talk of how they got civilisation from the Egyptians and the Phoenicians)

The "black" race of people arose in west africa and since the time of Christ they moved south and pushed out the other two races in africa -- the pygmies who became slaves to the Bantu speakers and the Khoi-San who were killed off (germs and lands taken from these hunter gatherers)

[ronnie raygun]

Could we hope for a replay today!!!!

[SunkenCiv]

This will be a bit unusual, but it’s the weekly Digest ping, a sort of two-fer.

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[SunkenCiv]

[blam]

Humans Migrated Out Of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says

[gleeaikin]

On the whole the Ice Age was getting colder and colder, and it was probably relatively easy to walk back to North Africa since sea level was about 400 feet lower. So if I were in freezing Europe, I might have wanted to migrate back to Africa.

[blam]

"On the whole the Ice Age was getting colder and colder, and it was probably relatively easy to walk back to North Africa since sea level was about 400 feet lower. So if I were in freezing Europe, I might have wanted to migrate back to Africa."

I suspect there was a lot less water in the Mediterranean during the Ice Age than we realize. A whole lot less.

There are scowering marks in the bottom at the Atlantic entry point at Gibralter. I suspect there was a plug at Gibralter that broke as the Ice Age melt raised the water level in the Atlantic.
After the Med was filled, the 'plug' at Bosporus broke and the fresh water Black Sea was flooded.

There was enough flooding going on that there must be legends everywhere about floods.