Ancient DNA suggests that Europeans for the sea are placed near the sea for Africa
Currently about 8,000-year-old residue from Tunisia has revealed that there is a surprise: European Hunter-Aktri lineage
The people of the Stone Age may have crossed the Mediterranean on the wooden compartment, navigating from the island to the island.
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Thousands of years before Odisius, I had crossed the ‘Wine-Dark C’ in the epic poem of Homer. OdissiHunter-Ekatris may have done island-hop to Africa across the Mediterranean Sea.
The first genomic study of ancient people from the Eastern Magreb region-the present Tunisia and the northeast Algeria-showed that the population of the Stone Age living there over 8,000 years ago descended into the part, part, in part.
Search, reported on March 12 NatureTrans-Mediterranean C is the first direct proof of C voyging during this time, although the archaeological discovery has indicated in cultural exchange between European and North African hunters.
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Using ancient genomes, researchers have mapped the emergence of agriculture in the Middle East 12,000 years ago, but the southern Mediterranean Sea has been largely neglected.
“David Reich is not a North African story,” says David Reich, a population geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. “It was a very big hole.”
Europe
Along with Algeria and Tunisia -working with researchers in Europe, the team of Reich took a sequence of bones or teeth of 9 persons from East Magreb Archaeological Sites, which lived more than 6,000 and more than 10,000 years ago.
Everyone did the local hunter lineage like ancient people, now Morocco, which was identified in earlier studies. But unlike those western Magreb hunter-disciplines-the dynasty was replaced by European farmers to a large extent, perhaps reached through the Strait of Gibraltar-Local dynasties remained in Tunisia and Algeria long after the arrival of Europe and Middle East farmers.
It fits with evidence that people in Eastern Magreb continue to hunt local animals such as land snails and fodder wild plants, even cultivating imported sheep, goats and cattle. Agriculture did not leave the region much later. Maybe, Reach says, the flexibility of the local dynasty is related to resistance to farming practices.
A person from a Tunisian site called Djebba made a great surprise: European hunter-owners can be traced back to about 6% of his DNA. Researchers estimate that their Magrebi ancestors mixed with European hunter-dogs about 8,500 years ago. There are weak signs of these encounters in a woman from the site.
Canoe travel
The exact source of the man’s European lineage cannot be indicated, but the Sicily – several hundred kilometers from the coast of Tunisia – and the two continents have the possibility of small islands.
Such an island has been discovered from Obesidian, Penteeria, Tunisian archaeological sites, Giulio Lusrini, co-writer of notes study, an archaeologist, who is an expert in Africa in the National Research Council Institute of Heritage of Italy in Rome.
The hunter-creators of Europe and North Africa could detect Sicilian Strait in a long wooden canoe, who were visually navigating from the island to the island. Many potential stopover is now submerged, which has made it difficult to find more evidence for these trips, says Lusrini.
The discovery of the European hunter-generated dynasty in North Africa is important, saying the population geneticist Rosa Freegel at La Laguna University in Taneur, Spain. This shows that there was no great obstacle for the people of the Mediterranean Stone Age. Future studies, she expects, may be more surprising on both sides of the sea.
This article is reproduced with permission and was first published On March 12, 2025,
