Monday, September 21, 2026

"'More advanced' farming women married hunter-gatherer men in Europe thousands of years ago, ancient DNA reveals"

So you're saying there's a chance for all the Afghani and Syrian guys in Germany? 

From LiveScience, March 8:

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's Bronze Age. 

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that everything we thought we knew about the peopling of Europe by modern humans was wrong. The story was simpler than anyone was expecting: Europe was settled in just three massive migrations from the east.

First came the hunter-gatherers, more than 40,000 years ago. Then, after 9,000 years ago, there was an expansion of farming people from Anatolia during the Neolithic age.