The Sahara Desert is one of the most dry and desolate places in the Earth, spreading over a swot in North Africa that spreads parts of 11 countries and covers a region for China or the United States. But this has not always been so inhuman.
During the period of about 14,500 to 5,000 years ago, it was a green savanna that was rich in the body’s body and was temping with life. And, according to the DNA derived from the remains of two persons, who lived about 7,000 years ago, now Libya, it was home to a mysterious lineage of people isolated from the outside world.
Researchers analyzed the genome before those who are called “Green Sahara”. He obtained DNA from the bones of two women buried in a rock shelter called Takkori in the south -western Libya of remote. He was naturally mummified, who represented the oldest mummified human remains.
“At that time, Takkori was a succulent savanna with a nearby lake, which was contrary to today’s dry desert landscape,” said Johannes Crus, Archaeologicalist of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, which was contrary to today’s dry desert landscape. ” Nature,
The genome suggests that the Tarkori individuals were a separate and already part of the unknown human dynasty that lived from the sub-city and Eurasian population for thousands of years.
“From vigilance, the people of Takkori show no significant genetic effects near the sub-meeting European groups going to the south or eastern and north.
Archaeological evidence indicates that these people were rustic, surrounded by pets. The artifacts found on the site include stones, wood and animal bones, earthen pots, woven baskets and equipment made of carved sculptures.
The dynasty of two Tarkarkori individuals was found to be obtained from a North African dynasty separate from the sub-city population about 50,000 years ago. This occurs broadly when other human genealogies spread beyond the continent and become ancestors of all people outside Africa, in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
“The possibility of the Tarkary dynasty represents a relic of genetic diversity in North Africa,” the Cruce said.
“From 20,000 years ago, the genetic evidence reflects an influx of groups from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, followed by an exigal to Ibaria and Sicily about 8,000 years ago. However, still, for unknown reasons, the Takkari dynasty remained in separation for longer than expected. Sahara was only 15,000 years ago.
His lineage remained isolated in most of his existence before Sahara became uninhabited again. At the end of a warm and wet climate phase called African humid period, Sahara turned around 3,000 BC in the world’s largest hot desert.
Homo Sepians, members of our species that spread beyond Africa and were already present in some parts of Eurasia with the Niendarthal population, today except for a permanent genetic heritage in the non-African population. But Green Sahara people only detected the amount of Niendrarathal DNA, showing that they had contact with the external population.
However, the Tarkary population disappeared about 5,000 years ago when the African humid period ended and returned to the desert, today their dynasty traces remained among various North African groups today, the Cruce said.
“Their genetic heritage offers a new approach to the deep history of the field,” the cross said.
