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DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age
Phys dot org ^ | February 4, 2016 | Current Biology, Cell Press

Posted on 02/08/2016 11:24:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv

DNA evidence lifted from the ancient bones and teeth of people who lived in Europe from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene -- spanning almost 30,000 years of European prehistory -- has offered some surprises, according to researchers who report their findings in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Feb. 4, 2016. Perhaps most notably, the evidence shows a major shift in the population around 14,500 years ago, during a period of severe climatic instability...

The researchers pieced this missing history together by reconstructing the mitochondrial genomes of 35 hunter-gatherer individuals who lived in Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, and Romania from 35,000 to 7,000 years ago. Mitochondria are organelles within cells that carry their own DNA and can be used to infer patterns of maternal ancestry...

The new data show that the mitochondrial DNA of three individuals who lived in present-day Belgium and France before the coldest period in the last Ice Age -- the Last Glacial Maximum -- belonged to haplogroup M. This is remarkable because the M haplogroup is effectively absent in modern Europeans but is extremely common in modern Asian, Australasian, and Native American populations.

The absence of the M haplogroup and its presence in other parts of the world had previously led to the argument that non-African people dispersed on multiple occasions to spread across Eurasia and Australasia. The researchers say the discovery of this maternal lineage in Europe in the ancient past now suggests instead that all non-Africans dispersed rapidly from a single population, at a time they place around 50,000 years ago. Then, at some later stage, the M haplogroup was apparently lost from Europe.

(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: agriculture; animalhusbandry; belgium; czechrepublic; france; germany; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; holocene; huntergatherers; italy; mhaplogroup; mitochondria; mtdna; pleistocene; romania
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21 posted on 02/09/2016 4:15:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Y’know, speakin’ of that, I never did get around to posting the story about the prehistoric turtle soup.

It is too bad you didn't do it a LONG time ago. Because now we have a world ruled by reptiles.

22 posted on 02/09/2016 4:23:38 AM PST by disndat
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To: SunkenCiv
"Our model suggests that during this period of climatic upheaval, the descendants of the hunter-gatherers who survived through the Last Glacial Maximum were largely replaced by a population from another source,"

"The cause, no doubt, was the failure of the "descendants of the hunter-gatherers who survived through the Last Glacial Maximum" to build a proper border fence.

23 posted on 02/09/2016 4:46:34 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: SunkenCiv
Y’know, speakin’ of that, I never did get around to posting the story about the prehistoric turtle soup.

This always confuses me. Was the turtle prehistoric or the soup? And if the soup was prehistoric but the turtle was not, would the chef had to have created an Einstein-Rosen bridge to take a modern turtle and go back in time to make the soup, thereby making it prehistoric?

I think I shall go back to sniffing my glue now...

24 posted on 02/09/2016 4:48:13 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: SunkenCiv

” has offered some surprises”

What would be really surprising to euros is if they discovered that they were all jews.


25 posted on 02/09/2016 5:07:47 AM PST by fruser1
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To: disndat

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...”
“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”
“What?”


26 posted on 02/09/2016 6:52:59 AM PST by null and void (This war starts in the spiritual realm-it will end in ours though.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m gonna tell you one thing, kid...Younger Dryas Event.

http://cosmictusk.com/clovis-population-decline-at-younger-dryas
http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/
http://anthropology.net/2009/12/16/more-clovis-comet-debate-and-a-response-from-dr-richard-firestone-2/
http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/
http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/media-entertainment/increasing-rate-asteroid-discovery/


27 posted on 02/09/2016 7:06:33 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: SunkenCiv

“severe climatic instability?” What caused that? Not cars or spray cans!


28 posted on 02/09/2016 7:12:07 AM PST by jch10 (Hillary in the Big House, not the White House .)
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To: Claud

Hunter/Gather Women looking for a nice warm home and some stability.

“I love ya Ork, but no want more boom boom on cold ground. Talk to my lawyer.”


29 posted on 02/09/2016 8:37:07 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain fInor a murderer, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: rjsimmon

I’m just glad I was there when you came out of your shell. /rimshot


30 posted on 02/09/2016 2:40:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: disndat

Clinton was a lounge lizard, does that count?


31 posted on 02/09/2016 3:05:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: fruser1

Heh... it came as a shock to Hitler. Himmler personally investigated the ‘rumors’ at least three times, kept that file in his office under lock and key.


32 posted on 02/09/2016 3:07:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: txnativegop; rdcbn; Tallguy; Yollopoliuhqui; r_barton; Mark17; Darksheare; Sirius Lee; ...

Thanks! :’)


33 posted on 02/09/2016 3:08:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Tallguy

““Diversity” is a hope.”

I disagree. Imo, all SJWisms, Diversity included, are known to be Destructionist bullcrap by the originators. They simply wrap the Destructionism up into sound-good slogans to feed the useful idiots, who are, by definition, completely incapable of both relating cause to effect over time and thinking beyond the reach of their own gonads or any deeper than the bottom of their own bellies.

By paying attention on a day to day basis, you can watch the process as it happens. The originators will churn out sound-good slogans for whatever Destructionism is waiting in the wings, and throw them at the public listening wall like load filled diapers via msm and other outlets, until they find one that sticks. Then the outlets run with it in saturation mode until enough of the pop signals psychological capitulation to the new destructionism. Then the cycle starts again on the next new degenerate, intentionally destructive idiocy.


34 posted on 02/09/2016 3:12:06 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: null and void

The problem is worse than I thought. Please tell me it is only intragalactic and there is still some corner of the universe where I can hide.


35 posted on 02/09/2016 4:17:38 PM PST by disndat
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To: disndat
Unknown.

Any place where that is not the case has made a point of staying VERY well hidden.

36 posted on 02/09/2016 4:36:22 PM PST by null and void (This war starts in the spiritual realm-it will end in ours though.)
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To: null and void

So it should be easy enough to find. Just look for something that isn’t there.


37 posted on 02/09/2016 4:58:37 PM PST by disndat
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To: SunkenCiv

Bloodlines sometimes go extinct just like species do. It’s possible that people do it to themselves. China once had light eyed people but later they didn’t. I think it’s cause they used those people for human sacrifices and ran out of supply.


38 posted on 02/10/2016 6:30:38 AM PST by Varda
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