Posted on 01/01/2010 3:19:58 PM PST by decimon
As a member of haplogroup U8a we welcomed the other folk into Europe.
If we all have to start making sense around here, it’s gonna get kinda quiet. And dull.
I just realized that I wound up forgetting to participate in the family surname dna project, oops. I guess I saved $100 or whatever it cost. And I can still get tested anyway.
Despite its rarity, the very presence of this haplogroup in today's Europeans suggests some continuity between Palaeolithic hunters and the continent's present-day inhabitants, argue the authors of the latest study.the classics never wear out:
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Several FReepers including me have been tested. It confirmed what I already knew. My male ancestors came from Iberia right after the last ice age, settled in Britain and didn’t leave. A few of them migrated to North America in the late 18th century, which is how I came to have a Southern drawl.
That Causausus region - Armenia and Georgia today - seems crucial.
The DNA analysed in this study comes from a male aged 20-25 who was deliberately buried in an oval pit some 30,000 years ago.
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