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/
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:
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.
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.
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.
‘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
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.
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
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.
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