Radical AnthropologyHigh-quality genome analysis of Denisovan #Neanderthals reveals their isolation
'The older Eastern and younger Western Neandertals were as differentiated in terms of the frequencies of genetic variants as the most differentiated present-day human populations worldwide'
the second archaeogenetic study on demography of western neanderthals https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2520565123
DavidM_yegWithout paywall for anyone interested: https://archive.ph/WhPd1
Bit of a tangent, but I followed a link through to this article that opens with:
“Archaeologists in northern Peru have discovered a 3,000-year-old burial. Inside it lay one of the first priests in ancient Andean history, a man who lived well before the time of the Inca.”
Sets my teeth on edge that they so glibly set aside and generalize the preceding 10,000 years, arrogantly conflating ‘history’ - the handfull of stories we think we know and can imperfectly tell - with History: all of the human things that have happened.