Ancient humans from Asia walked 20,000 km to reach the edge of the Americas—new DNA research uncovers their epic journey. #AncientDNA #HumanMigration #ScientificDiscovery

https://geekoo.news/asias-forgotten-pioneers-who-walked-to-the-edge-of-the-world/

Asia’s Forgotten Pioneers Who Walked to the Edge of the World | Geekoo

New genetic research reveals that the longest prehistoric human migration didn’t start in Europe or Africa—but deep in Asia. The journey spans 20,000 kilometers and ends at the edge of the Americas.

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From Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, migration has always been in our bones. Our ancestors moved out of Africa—and back again—shaping lineages, landscapes, and legacies. We’ve always been a species on the move. #HumanMigration #WOPA #PaleoPost #OutOfAfrica

The #ProtoIndoEuropean (#PIE) #language, the reconstructed ancestor of the #IndoEuropean family, is a key discovery in historical linguistics. Spoken thousands of years ago, PIE gave rise to languages like #English, #Hindi, #Greek, and #Russian. These languages, integral to many cultures today, reflect PIE's legacy in #HumanMigration, #CulturalExchange, and #LanguageEvolution. Here’s a brief exploration:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2024/2024-12-25-indo_european_language_family/

#WeekendStories #histodons

The Indo-European Language family: Linguistic roots of European and South Asian civilizations

The Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European language family, is one of the most significant discoveries in historical linguistics. Spoken thousands of years ago, PIE gave rise to languages such as English, Hindi, Greek, and Russian, which are integral to many of today’s cultures and societies. Studying PIE and its descendants offers insights into patterns of human migration, cultural exchange, and the evolution of language itself.

Fabrizio Musacchio
Study links fear of conflict to population changes in Neolithic Europe

Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of the human population has been far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by sharp declines. The reasons behind these fluctuations remain only partially understood.

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Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe [html/pdf 13pp] #neolithic #HumanMigration https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51335-4
Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe - Nature Communications

The Neolithic transition spread across Europe via a coastal, southern route and an inland, central route. Here, the authors use haplogroup clines and space-time simulations to show that interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers was the same along both routes.

Nature

‘Of all the ABO blood groups, B shows the most clearly defined geographic distribution.‘

Blood Types and the History of Peoples [html] #BloodGroups #BloodTypes #HumanMigration #anthropology https://www.dadamo.com/dadamo2024/show_blog.pl?blood-type-history-of-peoples

Blood Types and the History of Peoples

Only in the last century have scientists and anthropologists begun using biological markers such as the blood groups in the search for humanity's imprint on our distant past.

Early Hominins First Arrived in Southern Europe around 1.3 Million Years Ago | Sci.News

A new study, published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, helps resolve one of the longest controversies in paleoanthropology: when did early hominins arrive in Europe?

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New Archaeological Evidence from Tanimbar Islands Shows Human Occupation 42,000 Years Ago #HumanMigration https://www.sci.news/archaeology/pleistocene-human-occupation-tanimbar-islands-13113.html
New Archaeological Evidence from Tanimbar Islands Shows Human Occupation 42,000 Years Ago | Sci.News

Tanimbar is one of the main island groups in Wallacea included in early human migration routes from Sunda to Sahul (Australia + New Guinea).

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Recent archaeological discoveries have significantly altered our understanding of ancient human migration. New evidence suggests that humans migrated out of Africa much earlier and via different routes than previously thought. This revelation is reshaping the historical map and prompting a re-evaluation of how our ancestors spread across the globe.

#Archaeology #HumanMigration #AncientHistory

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a60876432/human-migration-australia/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

A New Archaeological Discovery Has Ripped Up the Map of Human Migration

Unearthed evidence offers a previously unknown pathway for our ancient ancestors.

Popular Mechanics

Oldest fossil human footprints in North America confirmed
Two new lines of evidence support the 21,000 to 23,000-year age estimate of the footprints first described and dated in 2021
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231005161809.htm

Independent age estimates resolve the controversy of ancient human footprints at White Sands
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adh5007
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37797035/

#Americas #anthopology #prehistory #NorthAmerica #fossils #HumanEvolution #HumanMigration

Oldest fossil human footprints in North America confirmed

New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought.  In September 2021, scientists announced that ancient human footprints discovered in White Sands National Park were between 21,000 and 23,000 years old. This discovery pushed the known date of human presence in North America back by thousands of years and implied that early inhabitants and megafauna co-existed for several millennia before the terminal Pleistocene extinction event. In a follow-up study, researchers used two new independent approaches to date the footprints, both of which resulted in the same age range as the original estimate. 

ScienceDaily