#dna studies

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DNA Shows Native Americans Have Origin in Western Eurasia

Scientists who have sequenced DNA from a boy in Siberia say Native Americans share genetic material with Middle Easterners and Europeans.

[mediumaevum]

Strange, elongated skulls reveal medieval Bulgarian brides were traded for politics (Mar 12, 2018)

In a handful of medieval Bavarian farming hamlets populated mostly by blue-eyed blondes, more than a dozen women with dark hair, dark eyes, and unusual elongated skulls would have stood out. A new DNA study suggests that these women, whose striking skulls have been unearthed from nearby grave sites, were high-ranking “treaty brides” from Romania and Bulgaria, married off to cement political alliances. Yet others are skeptical.

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[linguisticalities]

Ancient DNA evidence reveals two unknown migrations from North to South America – ScienceDaily

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Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette

Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.

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Helsinki Times

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Ancient Greeks Descend from the Pontic Steppe, New Study Claims - GreekReporter.com

A new study has shed considerable light on how the ancient Greeks were descended from the Yamnaya population of the Pontic Steppe.

[linguisticalities]

(via Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry | New Scientist)

[tardygrading]

Eske Willerslev Is Rewriting History With DNA -------------- Learning how to Anthropologize ethically. I am schooled and vastly impressed.