Posted on 10/31/2021 2:52:11 AM PDT by blueplum
(CNN)Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable desert region of northwest China has puzzled and divided archaeologists....
Their Western looks; felted and woven wool clothing; and the cheese, wheat and millet found in their unusual graves suggested they were long-disticance herders....
However, a new study by Chinese, European and American researchers that analyzed the DNA of these 13 mummies, sequencing their genomes for the first time, has painted a different picture. Their analysis suggested that the remains did not belong to newcomers but a local group descended from an ancient ice age Asian population...
...Called Ancient North Eurasians, traces of this hunter-gatherer population survive only fractionally in the genomes of present-day populations, with Indigenous people in Siberia and the Americas having the highest known proportions....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Be better if they got up and started herding again...
:D
Wow… Floki made it that far, eh?
Damn, the mummie looks like Aunt Mabel.
Enigmatic? I guess the mummies aren’t talking? Lol
23 and me determined they came from south africa?
Thanks blueplum.
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