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Post by Victor VVV on Feb 13, 2024 0:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by Victor VVV on Feb 13, 2024 0:58:55 GMT -5
Mysterious Genetic Origins of the Western Hunter Gatherers of Europe
During the Mesolithic period (also known as the Middle Stone Age), a new race of hunter-gatherers took over Western Europe. Arriving in Europe around 20,000 years ago, Western Hunter Gatherers gradually spread out across all of the Western continent. When they came into northern Europe, the last Ice Age was coming to an end, and the climate was significantly warmer than before, allowing wild animals and people alike to thrive. Western Hunter Gatherers were medium-height but robustly built, with strong teeth and bones, and included La Braña Man, Loschbour Man, and Cheddar Man. Controversially, Genetic testing suggests that they had dark skin and blue or green eyes, in great contrast to how these "Cro-Magnons' are usually portrayed. However, The biggest mystery is where did they come from.
The term Western Hunter-Gatherer refers to a distinct ancestral component of modern Europeans descended from a population of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who dispersed across Western, Southern, and Central Europe, from the British Isles in the west to the Carpathians in the east, following the retreat of the ice sheet of the Last Glacial Maximum. The Western Hunter-Gatherer, along with the Scandinavian and Eastern Hunter-Gatherer, formed one of the three major genetic groups in early Holocene Europe's postglacial period. Western Hunter-Gatherers are recognized as a distinct ancestral component of most modern Europeans' ancestry.
According to some anthropologists, Western-Hunter Gatherer skin color ranged from olive to black, and they may have had some regional variation in eye and hair colors. This is in stark contrast to the distantly related Eastern Hunter-Gatherers, who have been described as having light skin, brown or blue eyes, and dark or light hair. La Brana Man and Cheddar Man, two Western Hunter-Gatherer skeletons with incomplete genomes, are predicted to have had dark or dark-to-black skin, whereas "Sven" and Loschbour Man, two other Western Hunter-Gatherer skeletons with complete genomes, are predicted to have had dark to intermediate and intermediate skin, respectively.
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Post by Victor VVV on Feb 13, 2024 19:47:37 GMT -5
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