Fresco of a horse from the ancient kingdom of Urartu in what is now Armenia and Turkey. The new DNA analyses included several individuals associated with the kingdom.Image: EvgenyGenkin/CC BY-SA 3.0
Posted on 08/28/2022 3:16:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Growing up in Greece, Iosif Lazaridis shared his compatriots’ appreciation that they lived in “the crossroads of Europe and Asia,” past and present...
Featuring the genomes of more than 1,300 ancient people, 727 of them sequenced for the first time, the work represents one of the largest analyses to date of ancient human DNA...
In addition to illuminating shifts in different populations’ genetic makeup across the centuries, the analyses provide fresh genetic insights into old mysteries such as the identities of Minoan and Mycenaean peoples and the geographic origin of Indo-European languages...
Until a few years ago, it was difficult or impossible to recover DNA from ancient people buried in regions like the Middle East because heat degrades the delicate material. The discovery in 2015 that an inner-ear bone does an exceptional job of preserving DNA and the development of new sequencing and analytic techniques threw open the doors to studying large collections of ancient DNA from previously inaccessible environments.
Co-authors in different fields worked together to interpret the findings in light of what was already known through archaeological evidence, ancient texts, and other materials. Some of the discoveries add detail to existing histories. Others fill in gaps. Still others challenge conventional theories...
“These findings are another example of how archaeogenetic results can provide a missing layer of information that cannot be obtained from other sources,” said Alpaslan-Roodenberg.
For Lazaridis, the papers provide a jumping-off point for yet more investigations even as they scratch his lifelong itch to know more about the people who live beside one another today.
(Excerpt) Read more at hms.harvard.edu ...
Fresco of a horse from the ancient kingdom of Urartu in what is now Armenia and Turkey. The new DNA analyses included several individuals associated with the kingdom.Image: EvgenyGenkin/CC BY-SA 3.0
One of *those* topics.
Sidebars elsewhere in the news:
Inner ear DNA from a henpecked Mycenaean warrior cannot be recovered. It quickly degrades after the honeymoon.
The proof is in the ability to sequence DNA
Just how illogical are you?
Heh... probably the only known example from ancient lit is the murder of Agamemnon, but that was a pretty dysfunctional family. ;^)
Unfortunately this blanket mistrust in conservative circles of all intellectual activity and academic pursuits is a fallout of the Deep State activities against conservatives over the past decade. Conservatives are retreating into an illogical and conspiratorial cave of anti-intellectualism, rejecting all pedigreed intellectuals as suspicious, but have no other response.
Did they Ayla and Jonathon’s bones?
I've got my reparations claim against Alexander the Great all prepared and ready to go.
Heh... probably the only known example from ancient lit is the murder of Agamemnon, but that was a pretty dysfunctional family. ;^)When your sister is your brother is your father, too... gets complicated.
Good post, some conservatives are giving the same knee-jerk reactions to all kinds of things.
Sadly you are correct
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