Posth et al 2023 and Villalba-Mouco et al 2023: Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers & A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups...
My wife and I petered out at "So let’s add some of these genetics now into the chronology." We carefully studied Aurignacian, Gravettian, Solutrean, Epigravettian, Magdalenian, and Mesolithic, and then immediately after we found Kostenki, Goyet, and Bacho Kiro, and everything started to unravel. For us the experience was similar to being invited to a party in 2020 and meeting fifteen people wearing COVID masks.
It might help if the samples in the first graphic could be somehow grouped into the six time periods, or else, if the six time periods could be clipped entirely, leaving only geographic regions and groups.
Totally understandable, its a very dense paper and hard to make accessible, despite my efforts. Would an introductory article covering the basics of genetics and prehistory perhaps help for the future?
Yes. What I enjoy, and *also* find difficult, about this blog, are the whos and whens of prehistory. Many of the terms are new ("Corded Ware"), counterintuitive ("Neolithic" means... "agriculture?"), or don't match things I learned elsewhere ("horticulture" and "agriculture" aren't distinct?).
I'm fine with genetics. "Cluster," "haplogroup," "lineage," that's easy. Some of your readers might founder at geographic terms like "Iberia" and "Balkans," but all of that is a Wikipedia article away.
I suspect part of the problem is that this is an area of advancing knowledge. You're correct when you imply readers are getting used to the idea that Europeans are a blending of dark skinned, blue eyed WHG, fair skinned, dark-eyed farmers, and lactose-tolerant IE speakers from the Eurasian Steppe who presumably spoke PIE (yet aren't "Aryans" because that's politically incorrect). But time frames are vague - we're talking about periods long before the cultivation of apples, despite how encouraging the acronym PIE might otherwise seem.
Hopefully this gives a sense of where your median reader might be!
Off topic, but, I'd like to suggest you expand your subscriptions to have a range of levels of support. I'd like to support your work, but $7 a month is a bit steep for me. How about adding a $2 a month option?
It is always frustrating the lack of inclusion (or difficulty of obtaining) results from N Africa.
Many surprises waiting there.
My wife and I petered out at "So let’s add some of these genetics now into the chronology." We carefully studied Aurignacian, Gravettian, Solutrean, Epigravettian, Magdalenian, and Mesolithic, and then immediately after we found Kostenki, Goyet, and Bacho Kiro, and everything started to unravel. For us the experience was similar to being invited to a party in 2020 and meeting fifteen people wearing COVID masks.
It might help if the samples in the first graphic could be somehow grouped into the six time periods, or else, if the six time periods could be clipped entirely, leaving only geographic regions and groups.
Totally understandable, its a very dense paper and hard to make accessible, despite my efforts. Would an introductory article covering the basics of genetics and prehistory perhaps help for the future?
Yes. What I enjoy, and *also* find difficult, about this blog, are the whos and whens of prehistory. Many of the terms are new ("Corded Ware"), counterintuitive ("Neolithic" means... "agriculture?"), or don't match things I learned elsewhere ("horticulture" and "agriculture" aren't distinct?).
I'm fine with genetics. "Cluster," "haplogroup," "lineage," that's easy. Some of your readers might founder at geographic terms like "Iberia" and "Balkans," but all of that is a Wikipedia article away.
I suspect part of the problem is that this is an area of advancing knowledge. You're correct when you imply readers are getting used to the idea that Europeans are a blending of dark skinned, blue eyed WHG, fair skinned, dark-eyed farmers, and lactose-tolerant IE speakers from the Eurasian Steppe who presumably spoke PIE (yet aren't "Aryans" because that's politically incorrect). But time frames are vague - we're talking about periods long before the cultivation of apples, despite how encouraging the acronym PIE might otherwise seem.
Hopefully this gives a sense of where your median reader might be!
Off topic, but, I'd like to suggest you expand your subscriptions to have a range of levels of support. I'd like to support your work, but $7 a month is a bit steep for me. How about adding a $2 a month option?