An adult man (top skeleton) buried some 6,000 years ago in what is now France was a son of the man from whom dozens of people also buried at the site are descended.Credit: Stéphane Rottier
Posted on 07/27/2023 8:51:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the mid-2000s, archaeologists excavating a burial site in France uncovered a 6,500-year-old mystery. Among the remains of more than 120 individuals, one grave stood out. It contained a nearly complete female skeleton alongside a few assorted bones that looked like they had been dug up and moved from another grave.
Ancient DNA from the enigmatic relocated remains now shows that they belonged to the male ancestor of dozens of the other people buried nearby. This insight comes from a study that used ancient genomics to build the largest-ever genealogy of a prehistoric family, providing a snapshot of life in an early farming community. The study1 was published on 26 July in Nature...
The dozens of burials at Gurgy 'Les Noisats', located about 150 kilometres southeast of Paris, lack any signs of such monuments or rich grave goods, indicating that they might have belonged to commoners, says study co-author Wolfgang Haak, an archaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
His team analysed the genomes of 94 of the 128 individuals recovered from the site, and used the data to determine how they were related to one another. The researchers expected some individuals to be related, based on the composition of other Neolithic sites.
But they were astounded to discover that around two-thirds belonged to a single family tree that spanned seven generations. The closer people were buried, the more closely related they were...
At the top of the genealogy is the man from the mysterious grave. The jumble of bones was unique to the site, yet no grave goods or other evidence signalled his position or the reason his remains had been exhumed, says study co-author Maïté Rivollat, an archaeologist at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
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An adult man (top skeleton) buried some 6,000 years ago in what is now France was a son of the man from whom dozens of people also buried at the site are descended.Credit: Stéphane Rottier
Thanks. This was quite interesting!
I wonder how they are related to modern groups.
Basques say.
9,000-Year-Old Cheddar Man Has Living Descendant Still Living in The Same Area
The DNA of Adrian Targett, who was 42 years old when that discovery was made, was found to match that belonging to Cheddar Man. According to science (sic), this genetic fingerprint is said to have been passed down from mother to child. In other words, Targett and Cheddar Man both share a common maternal ancestral. It may be added that Targett was not the only one from his family to have not moved away from his ancestral land. It was reported that there were 46 individuals in his extended family, and most of them had remained in the Somerset area.
Not sure about the northern states , but here in the south there are hundreds of family cemeteries that date back 200 or more years ago.......
It's good to be the King.
Cheddar Man died with a block of cheese in his hand, which is how he got his modern name. ;^)
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My pleasure.
I was hoping for extraterrestrials, but I guess that will have to do.
Hunter Biden’s original unknown family?
Some people just stay where ya put ‘em.
None of this wanderin around and stuff.
Wonder if he will file a claim for land stolen from him that belonged to his ancestors...at least he can actually prove a connection...
Was his surname Flintstone or was it Rubble?
Does he sell cheese in a cheese shop with no cheese in it??......................
Worse yet, he was lactose intolerant.
Anything but mimes
Pretty good carving.
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