Credit: University of Roehampton
Posted on 07/26/2020 9:38:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The research, a collaboration between the University of Roehampton, the University of Cambridge and several other institutions, combined archeological data with palaeoclimatic reconstructions to show for the first time that climate dramatically impacted the migration of people across Europe, causing a dramatic slowdown between 6,100 BCE and 4,500 BCE.
The research team, including Dr. Lia Betti, Senior Lecturer of the University of Roehampton, assembled a large database of the first arrival dates of Neolithic farmers across the continent and studied the speed of their migration in relation to climatic reconstructions of the time. They also re-analysed ancient DNA data to understand the interaction between early farmers and local hunter-gatherers.
They discovered migration started quickly out of south-eastern Europe, with Neolithic farmers pushing out the existing hunter-gatherer population. This was demonstrated by how little the DNA of the two groups mixed. As they moved north, the climate became less suitable for the crops they had bought with them. Their pace of movement slowed, changing how they interacted with local hunter-gatherers, which can be seen through increased genetic admixture of the two groups...
Comparing ancient DNA data from local hunter-gatherers and early farmers, the authors also demonstrated that the challenging climatic conditions for farming in Northern Europe led to closer relationships between the two groups and higher admixture. Exchanges of goods and local hunting knowledge may have allowed the first farmers to persist in these regions despite poor crop yields.
This research shows how climate has significantly impacted the migration of people since the beginning of our history. The climatic suitability of places to live and settle played a key role in determining where different human groups could thrive, in turn changing the genetics of entire continents.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
I thought climate only changed in the 2nd half the 20th century??
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Climate change has been busy on this planet since long before the ice age.
:^)
I tend to bypass any entirely that uses the idiotic “BCE” date differentiation. The time may come when it is unavoidable given the PC madness that is enslaving the planet but we aren’t there yet.
I always wondered why the rollers didn't just fall right off.
Took a big study to figure all that out, eh?
Apparently you don't.
They got the idea when they were plowed.
Some evil person must have used a time machine to give the dinosaurs filthy, polluting cars. There can be no other explanation.
It’s kind like old Sam said, may god rest his irreverent soul;
“You know, we’ve been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn’t BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS!
But it took a study to figure it out. Academia= Educated Idiots.
That's one of the chances ya take when a show like Top Gear gets access to the latest technology.
"We have deserts in our country, we just don't live in 'em, *******!" [kind of a weird joke for Sam, since he'd lived in LA already]
So basically people in the Neolithic period were able to figure this out in areas OTHER than Africa where they still haven’t figured it out. There are some who never learn.
And this is important because?
The hunters gathered up the farmers’ daughters.
Do we really need a study to show that if things get uncomfortable in one place, for whatever reason, they’ll look to move elsewhere, especially a people that’s nomadic to start with?
A more interesting study would have been on why are there people living in the harsh climes of Alaska, Siberia, the deserts of Africa and Arabia? Why didn’t those people move?
I tend to bypass any entirely that uses the idiotic “BCE” date differentiation
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Me too. Same dating, different meaning.
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