Ancient ADA demonstrates the European-aged Europeans to Africa
Over 8,000 years of 8,000 years ago Tunisia had a surprise: European hunter-gatherers ancestors
Stone-age people crossed the Mediterranean on wood canagers, seen from the island of the island.
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Thousands of years earlier Odysseo crossed the ‘wine-sea’ at Epic poem of Homer OdysseyThe hunter-gatherers had an island to go to Africa throughout the Mediterranean.
The genomic study of the ancient people of the eastern Maghreb region – the first study of today’s Tunisia and Northern Algeria. The population of the background age lived more than 8,000 years ago, partly fell from European hunters.
The discovery reported on March 12 NatureThis time is the first direct evidence of the Mediterranean Sea, despite the cultural exchange between archaeological discoveries in Europe and North Africa.
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Using ancient genomes, researchers have created agriculture in the Middle East 12,000 years ago and extended to Europe, but the south of the Mediterranean has been dismissed.
“It’s not a big part of a story in North Africa,” says David Reich, the genetician population of Boston Massachusetts of Boston Massachusetts in Boston Massachusetts in Boston Massachusetts. “It’s been a huge hole.”
Cross through Europe
Working with Algeria and Tunisian researchers, as well as Europe, Sequenced DNA by 9 people or 9 people of archaeological sites in Eastern Maghreb, who lived more than 10,000 years ago.
All were taken by the ancestors of the local hunter-gatherers, similar to the ancient people in Morocco, identified in earlier research. But unlike these Magreb hunters, in his opinion, when the European farmers crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, the local ancestors survived Tunisia and Algeria, when farmers in Europe and Middle East arrived.
Oriental Maghreb continued to hunt local animals, such as land snails and wild plants, even imported sheep, goats and cattle. Agriculture did not remove the region until later. Perhaps Reich, the resilience of its ancestors is linked to agricultural practices resistance.
The genome of the man in a Tunisian site called Djebba had a great surprise: around 6% of his DNA retreated to European hunters. Researchers estimate that about 8,500 years ago with European hunter collectors mixed his ancestors of his maghrebi. There are weaker signs of these meetings in a site.
Travel canoe
The exact source of the European European ancestors cannot be determined, but Sicily – hundreds of miles from the Tunisian coast – and the options are smaller islands between two continents.
Pantelleria, Pantelleria, Tunisia Archaeological sites found in Giulio Lucarini (an archaeologist specializing in Africa), an archaeologist specializing in Africa at the Rome World Heritage Science Institute.
The hunter was able to cross the Sicilian strait to the Sicilian Strait, seen from the island of the island. Many potential stops are immersed now, finding more evidence for these journeys, Lucarini is added.
It is an important discovery of the ancestors of the European hunter-gatherers in northern Africa, says the genetic population of Rosa Fregel, University of the Laguna of Tenerife, Spain. The Mediterranean was not a great obstacle for older people. Future studies, hopefully, can cause more surprises on both sides of the sea.
This article reproduces with permission and has been First posted On March 12, 2025.
