Posted on 08/16/2006 11:16:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The revival of diffusionism hasn't pleased everyone and most archaeologists still prefer a balance between local invention and diffusion of ideas with only limited population migration. And many question the validity of DNA typing of modern populations to infer ancient migrations. But a study published in Science by Wolfgang Haak and colleagues at the University of Gutenberg sought to overcome this objection by sequencing DNA from 7,500-year-old skeletons of the first European farmers. Surprisingly, the scientists found that a quarter of the skeletons yielded a very rare DNA type that is hardly found at all among modern Europeans. The authors proposed that although these early farmers left their agricultural implements and Neolithic culture to Europe, they didn't leave their genes. Haak and colleagues suggested that the ancestors of modern Europeans are not the farmers from the Middle East but the Palaeolithic populations of Europe: those painters of the bison.
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I would say so but I'm not sure what is the 'legal' defination of diffusionism..
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So that's where I get my artistic nature, hehehe.
In case you're wondering what the type they refer to is, it's N1a, extremely rare all over the world, and only 0.2% of present day Europeans from the same region as these skeletons have it.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051112125213.htm
The people in question are from the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture, and an associated group, Alföldi Vonaldiszes Kerámia (AVK) culture.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/11/mtdna-of-early-central-european.html
N1a is also found in the Scythians.
http://dienekes.ifreepages.com/blog/archives/000528.html
Also found in Brahmins but not Dravidians.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/11/n1a-in-brahmnins.html
How great is thy art?
I can draw stick trees as good as any found on ancient cave walls, hehehe.
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