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The first sequencing of ancient genomes extracted from human remains that date back to the Late Upper Palaeolithic period over 13,000 years ago has revealed a previously unknown "fourth strand" of ancient European ancestry.
This new lineage stems from populations of hunter-gatherers that split from western hunter-gatherers shortly after the 'out of Africa' expansion some 45,000 years ago and went on to settle in the Caucasus region, where southern Russia meets Georgia today.
Here these hunter-gatherers largely remained for millennia, becoming increasingly isolated as the Ice Age culminated in the last 'Glacial Maximum' some 25,000 years ago, which they weathered in the relative shelter of the Caucasus mountains until eventual thawing allowed movement and brought them into contact with other populations, likely from further east.
This led to a genetic mixture that resulted in the Yamnaya culture: horse-borne Steppe herders that swept into Western Europe around 5,000 years ago, arguably heralding the start of the Bronze Age and bringing with them metallurgy and animal herding skills, along with the Caucasus hunter-gatherer strand of ancestral DNA - now present in almost all populations from the European continent.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday November 19 2015, @10:14PM
This led to a genetic mixture that resulted in the Yamnaya culture: horse-borne Steppe herders that swept into Western Europe around 5,000 years ago, arguably heralding the start of the Bronze Age and bringing with them metallurgy and animal herding skills
That certainly explains Xena, the Warrior Princess, then.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 19 2015, @10:48PM
Imagine how stank women were back then, all those unbathed maidens and barbarianettes, back before soap and regular bathing were invented. If Xena came up to your face right now and told you, "I've decided that I am no longer a lesbian and want to mate with a male" you wouldn't take the opportunity.
First, your nose-hairs would fall out, and then the paint would chip off the surrounding walls. Then all of the buzzards perched on the shitwagons twenty paces away would swing over and fall straight off.
Women may have been somewhat attractive in antiquity, but they were stank. Only men from India would have been man enough to handle them.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 20 2015, @01:06AM
Don't know why this got an offtopic...
The biggest problem with sex with ancients is that they all had VD, and assuming you went back then instead of them coming to now, it was quite often fatal and more often deeply unpleasant.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Friday November 20 2015, @01:20AM
Don't know why this got an offtopic...
Because there's no -1 Completely F*$#@ing weird Mod
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2015, @04:03PM
Not really. The worst VDs came from the Americas and more recently Africa. Ice age Europe was a free love paradise. Of course, back then your choices would be limited. You either make do with your sister or go across the glacier for two weeks to meet your cousin in the biblical sense.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 20 2015, @03:02AM
You would probably get used to the filth, and learn to enjoy it filthily.
You can find out yourself when you invent a time machine and use technology to conquer the planet.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2015, @04:16AM
but they were stank. Only men from India would have been man enough to handle them.
5,000 years ago, the Indian region was the Indus Valley Civilization and they knew bathing well.
Indus Valley Civilization [wikipedia.org]
Ornamented-past-5000-year-old-artifacts [ancient-origins.net]