The international research team from the Max Planck Anthropology Institute for the first time decoded the ancient genes of those living in the road during the fertile Savannah conversion process. The work is published in Nature magazine.
The scientists analyzed the DNA of two natural mummies that lived about seven thousand years ago. Their remains were found in The Rock Asylum of Takarkor in southwestern Libya in the excavations of the archaeological sect at Sakhara at Sapienets University.
The authors of the work discovered that these people in the North African were isolated, in fact, there was no relative relationship with an non -Fish population. This means that breeding cattle, actively developing at that time, most likely spread in areas not through mass migration, but through a cultural exchange.
Contrary to the previous popular hypothesis that the green road of Muslims during the wet African period (14,500, 5,000 years ago) was a migration corridor between North and Africa under control, genetic analysis showed the opposite. The rest of people from Takarkor does not contain signs of other origin, which shows the long -term isolation of the region.
The DNA of these ancient people is also closely connected to the genetic lines of 15,000-year-old hunters from the Taforal cave in Morocco, known for Ibero-Maureus culture. Both ancient people are far from residents in the south of Sakhara, confirming the isolation of North Africa.
Genetic analysis also shows that Takarkor residents have DNA Neanderthal 10 times less than modern people outside Africa, but more than the modern residents of Africa. This confirms that ancient North Africans are still in contact with the population outside the continent, although their genetic blend is limited.
Our data shows that the initial populations of North Africa are mainly isolated, but there are still traces of the Neanderthal genome due to the small genetic line due to the limitations of Africa, the leading author of Johannes Krause's study.