Quite an intriguing conclusion here, concerning the presence of a mystery lineage of humans during the Ice Age. Could they have been the survivors of a lost civilisation who perhaps didnt invent agriculture (as the linked study suggests) but brought already established agricultural skills with them into the Near East and passed them on to the indigenous hunter-gatherers there? Quote from the linked article: This mystery population may have remained small for a very long time, surviving in refugia in areas such as the Zagros Mountains of Iran and Iraq, for example... We have no idea at the moment where they were for those first 30,000 years, only that they were in the Middle East by the end of the ice age, when they invented agriculture. End of quote. Article here: phys.org/news/2014-11-ancient-dna-earliest-european-genomes.html Other related links: bbc/news/science-environment-29940694 reuters/article/2014/11/06/us-science-genome-idUSKBN0IQ2QK20141106 dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2823961/Fossil-DNA-confirms-interbreeding-humans-Neanderthals.html https://uk.news.yahoo/fossil-dna-confirms-interbreeding-190011529.html#In9iPZ7
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:50:44 +0000
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