Hi to all,
I came across this very current article via Geneanet forum.
I'll try to string the URL, but , I sure hope it works
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101109172344.htm
In a nut shell: This article published on line by Science Daily
A team of international researchers led by ancient DNA experts from the University of Adelaide has resolved the longstanding issue of the origins of people who introduced farming to Europe some 8000 years ago.
A detailed genetic study of one of the first farming communities in Europe from central Germany, reveals marked simelarities with populations living in the Ancient Near East (modern-day Turkey, Iraq and other countries) rather than those from Europe.
Project leader Alan Cooper, Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. This overturns current thinking which accepts that the first European farming populations were constructed largely from existing populations of hunter-gatherers, who had either rapidly learned to farm or interbred with the invaders etc.
The Ancient DNA used in this study comes from a complete graveyard of Early Neolithic farmers unearthed at the town of Derenburg in Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. etc.
If the URL does not work, perhaps a google search on the lead researcher (see above) and the tiltle will take one to the article
Melusine:heart:
I came across this very current article via Geneanet forum.
I'll try to string the URL, but , I sure hope it works
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101109172344.htm
In a nut shell: This article published on line by Science Daily
A team of international researchers led by ancient DNA experts from the University of Adelaide has resolved the longstanding issue of the origins of people who introduced farming to Europe some 8000 years ago.
A detailed genetic study of one of the first farming communities in Europe from central Germany, reveals marked simelarities with populations living in the Ancient Near East (modern-day Turkey, Iraq and other countries) rather than those from Europe.
Project leader Alan Cooper, Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. This overturns current thinking which accepts that the first European farming populations were constructed largely from existing populations of hunter-gatherers, who had either rapidly learned to farm or interbred with the invaders etc.
The Ancient DNA used in this study comes from a complete graveyard of Early Neolithic farmers unearthed at the town of Derenburg in Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. etc.
If the URL does not work, perhaps a google search on the lead researcher (see above) and the tiltle will take one to the article
Melusine:heart: