Ancient DNA from this skeleton, found in a Moroccan cave, is the oldest known from Africa. [Abdeljalil Bouzouggar]
Posted on 03/20/2018 5:30:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
About 15,000 years ago, in the oldest known cemetery in the world, people buried their dead in sitting positions with beads and animal horns, deep in a cave in what is now Morocco. These people were also found with small, sophisticated stone arrowheads and points, and 20th century archaeologists assumed they were part of an advanced European culture that had migrated across the Mediterranean Sea to North Africa. But now, their ancient DNA -- the oldest ever obtained from Africans -- shows that these people had no European ancestry. Instead, they were related to both Middle Easterners and sub-Saharan Africans, suggesting that more people were migrating in and out of North Africa than previously believed...
DNA in hand, Van de Loosdrecht and Choongwon Jeong, also of the SHH, were able to analyze genetic material from the cell's nucleus in five people and the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA from seven people. But they found no genetic tie to ancient Europeans. Instead, the ancient Iberomaurusians appear to be related to Middle Easterners and other Africans: They shared about two-thirds of their genetic ancestry with Natufians, hunter-gatherers who lived in the Middle East 14,500 to 11,000 years ago, and one-third with sub-Saharan Africans who were most closely related to today's West Africans and the Hadza of Tanzania.
The Iberomaurusians lived before the Natufians, but they were not their direct ancestors...
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Ancient DNA from this skeleton, found in a Moroccan cave, is the oldest known from Africa. [Abdeljalil Bouzouggar]
Yeah. And DNA would prove that mother and preborn child are two separate individuals too, but our courts choose to ignore it.
You mean people dispersed from the Middle East? Like it says in the Bible after the confusion of languages at the tower of Babel?
What a shock.
They had good strong bones.
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It is amazing to think of burial practices 15,000 years ago.
okay as I read the snip I pondered something...if its the oldest DNA found, how the hell do they know where it came from!??
Well, people were fully human then, and had be for tens of thousands of years.
Make that “had been”.
/sarc
Mozart wuz black, y'all..!!
Malice is dead? I didn’t even know he was sick!
Malice as well as forethought.
That may have been a really lame joke?
History n sh*t, nome sayin'..?!
Straight up BLACK, aigt...?
They really assume a lot when they put out these articles.
Things to ponder:
What was the shape and boundaries of the Mediterranean Sea at the time of that burial?
Those old cave paintings in Spain and France - did they feature pictures of this dead person? Or her pet woolly mammoth?
Was there a natural bridge over today’s Strait of Gibraltar at that time?
How do the claims that Sahara Desert was once covered with vegetation either support, or disprove these dates and claims?
AND
How did people even survive to adulthood without a government to protect them from the dangers of the world at that time? /s
Why did the hospital emergency room refuse to treat this person? /s
someone has to ask the tough questions
well actually the article talks about two movements out of Africa - one via Israel-theLevant and the other via Morocco to Spain. We know that many proto-Europeans (pre-Indo-Europeans) were based in Spain and Acquitania
they weren't aub-Saharan African in general but there were doubtless some citizens from Caracalla's time onwards who had some sub-saharan African blood and even East Asian blood
The black and white dichtomy is daft, the Romans only cared if you were a citizen or not.
I must be an albino.
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