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A large international team of researchers has found that Neolithic hunter-gatherers living in several parts of Europe interbred with farmers from the Near East. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes comparing DNA from several early groups in Europe and evidence of interbreeding.
The Neolithic period, often described as the New Stone Age, was a period of human history from approximately 15,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE. It was a time defined by the development of settlements and the refinement of tools and the arts. Prior research has shown that people living in what is now Germany, Hungary and Spain were mostly hunter-gatherers during the early Neolithic period, but were "replaced" by farmers moving in from the Near East (Anatolia). In this new effort, the researchers suggest that interbreeding between the two groups led to the decline of the hunter-gatherers. The end result is that most modern Europeans are descended from the Near East immigrant farmers, but have remnants of hunter-gatherer DNA.
To learn more about the early history of humans in Europe, the researchers obtained and analyzed 180 DNA samples of people from early Hungary, Germany and Spain dating from between 6,000 and 2,200 BCE.
Ironic that Europeans resist admitting Turkey to the EU when they're descended from people from Asia Minor.
Mark Lipson et al. Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers, Nature (2017). DOI: 10.1038/nature24476
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:24PM (5 children)
What kind of Greek are you? That is supposed to be the ultimate Hellenic feel-good movie.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @03:40PM (1 child)
Athenian, probably.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:42AM
Samian, actually. And you are talking about my neighbors.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:54PM (2 children)
Frank Miller is a racist bastard. The movie was all about the "Threat from the East", or, Islam. And for some reason the Persians all seemed to be darker skinned and really kind of Arabic looking. And most of the details about Greek culture of the time were fabrications. "300" was a right-wing (gay fascist, kinda like Milo) American movie, and besides being roughly based on the battle of Thermopylae, has nothing to do with Hellas or history.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:20AM (1 child)
Have it your way. But to be fair most Americans and many others think Persians and Arabs are synonymous, so it's a common ignorance. Put it to the man on the street in Des Moines and he'll look at you blankly when you suggest that is not what Persians look like. So a case can be made that it's ignorant rather than racist.
For what it's worth the Spartans are as weird and cartoonish as the Persians are made out to be.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:06PM
That's just Gerard Butler, North English or Lowland Scot, with CGI abs.
The ignorance is not intentional, but the manipulation of it toward racism and anti-semitism is quite intentional.