Showing posts with label aDNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aDNA. Show all posts
Saturday, April 29, 2017

When Is A "Conquest" Not A Conquest?

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When Is A Conquest Not A Conquest? You are a scientist living in the year 4017, specializing in the ancient civilizations that existed be...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

A Review of All Theories, on Why R1b Is So Common in Western Europeans

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The great Roman historian Tacitus begins the Germania by discussing how the Germans are separated from certain peoples by mountains, and sep...
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Another Way of Thinking About Ancient Populations (Autosomes versus just Y and mtDNA)

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I don't think Neandertals died out at all.   No more so than any population that existed from 600,000 to 25,000 years ago.   If yo...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

A Proposal for a New Lexicon for Ancient DNA "Components" Like WHG, EHG, EEF, ANE, and CHG

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Some of us a few years back started to decry the ever-ongoing ISOGG renaming process, which coupled with the discovery of new subclades, m...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

How Little We Know About Ancient DNA - Part II

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Earlier this year, I posted a series of maps graphically depicting the (at that time) exhaustive list of Ancient DNA finds, mapped out for b...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Intact Samnite Tomb Discovered; Will They Recover DNA?

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With all the focus in Southern Italian history being on exotic influences (which as we've posted before make up a very small part of the...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Ancient DNA Provides A New Understanding of Haplogroup I2a1a M26

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Below is a map of confirmed instances of I-M26 found in prehistoric remains.  Lots of others could have potentially been added -- ancestral ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015

How Little We Know About Ancient DNA

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I've frequented several of the Ancient DNA discussion boards lately, and have been flummoxed by the self-important, self-promoted, self-...
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