Posted on 04/04/2025 12:24:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green Sahara" 7,000 years ago.
Naturally mummified human remains found in the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara desert point to a previously unknown human population. (Image credit: © Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome) Two 7,000-year-old mummies belong to a previously unknown human lineage that remained isolated in North Africa for thousands of years, a new study finds.
The mummies are the remains of women who once lived in the "Green Sahara," also known as the African Humid Period. Between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, the now-inhospitable Sahara was a humid and verdant savanna, home to humans who hunted and eventually herded animals alongside lakes and rivers.
DNA from the two mummies revealed that the never-before-seen North African lineage was distinct and isolated from populations living in sub-Saharan Africa around the same time. The findings, reported April 2 in the journal Nature, suggest there was little genetic exchange across the Green Sahara during this time, though some cultural practices may have spread through the region.
Between 2003 and 2006, archaeologists unearthed the remains of 15 individuals in the Takarkori rock shelter, located near the middle of the Sahara in what is now southwestern Libya. The site included evidence of human occupation and pastoralism, or herding, dating back more than 8,000 years. Of the 15 individuals, most of whom were women and children, two had naturally mummified, which helped preserve their DNA.
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Berbers?
"...a small amount of North African and Sub-Saharan ancestry can be detected in the Spanish, it is largely absent from the Basques."
But that's not looking at North African ancestry going back 7,000 years. Because they didn't know about this earlier people group.
That’s not 7000 years old. 7000 years old is a particle in the wind.
Unless perhaps they had Gorilla Glue or fiberglass epoxy/resin.
I wonder if they could be related to the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and the North African Berbers.
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“...a small amount of North African and Sub-Saharan ancestry can be detected in the Spanish, it is largely absent from the Basques.”
But that’s not looking at North African ancestry going back 7,000 years. Because they didn’t know about this earlier people group.
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Also, the moors controlled Spain from about 750 AD to 1500 AD. That’s going to leave some north african genes.
Possible I suppose.
But these were even before the Phoenicians!................
What they won’t say is that these people were not African/Negroid. Wouldn’t want to say they were White.
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