Posted on 02/20/2025 5:51:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
"We don't need bones," Straus said. "The results show that several animals not represented by bones from the dig were present—either once living in the cave or as carcass pieces—in the past and, importantly, the humans who made the Solutrean artifacts during the height of the Last Glacial Maximum (about 25,000 to 21,000 years ago) had 'Fournol' genetic ancestry, as has been found in bones or teeth from sites in France and Spain (including La Riera in Asturias, a site dug by Straus in the 1970s). These were the people whose range had contracted southward during the climatic crisis and who preceded the Red Lady of El Miron and contributed to her DNA, along with DNA of Villabruna ancestry derived from humans whose genes had come to Cantabrian Spain in Lower Magdalenian times from the Balkans via northern Italy."
The ability to extract DNA from dirt makes it much more possible to study ancient animals and humans, since bones with well-preserved DNA, especially from humans, are rare...
The sedaDNA shows the presence of carnivores like the dhole, a species of wild dog now confined to eastern and southeastern Asia, leopard and hyena, and ungulates like wooly mammoth, rhinoceros, and reindeer that are either only minimally or not at all represented by the bones that had been found and identified by the archeologists.
The sedaDNA evidence at El Mirón ranges from more than 46,000 years ago from Mousterian-Neanderthal times to the Initial Magdalenian, circa 21,000 to 20,000 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.unm.edu ...
"Red Lady" skeleton [Sedimentary Ancient DNA From Spain's El Mirón Cave Studied | Archaeology Magazine | February 11, 2025]University of New Mexico
Extract DNA from dirt after 20,000 years?
Astounding.
Contamination from dinner artifacts (meaning bones from supper) has confused many sites.
I’ve had dogs act like aholes but not doles.
Interesting that you can’t get DNA from bones and teeth reliably, but you can from dirt.
Whoever composed the parts on this black background deserves high praise; what a beautiful, albeit eerie, composition. I feel like I am seeing a shaman shape-shifting into a wolf, dis-integrated by some warp of time.
Thanks for posting!
I wholeheartedly agree.
FOR DUST THOU ART AND UNTO DUST THOU SHALT RETURN!..............
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