Been hinted at by material culture before, now early trans-Mediterranean #SeaVoyaging πŸ›Ά is backed by #aDNA 🏺🧬, showing that #Neoltihic populations living in eastern #Maghreb about 8,000 years ago were descended, in part, from European hunter-gatherers:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00764-2 via @nature

Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.