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It has been found that two 7,000 -year -old mummies from Takarkov’s Rock shelter in the Sahara are from a group of unknown ancestors.
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DNA analysis of mummies that are residues of women’s shepherds have not shown the intended south of the Sahara genes since the Sahara was wetter and known as the green Sahara.
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Takarkov’s individuals are most closely related to other nations of North Africa, which have long been distinguished from the Sahara.
Although Sahara is now a huge sandy area where the struggle for survival can be cruel, it was time (no matter how hard it is) when it was actually green and flourished.
From 14,800 to 5,500 years, known as Africa’s humid period, the desert, known as one of the drier places on Earth, actually had enough water to maintain a lifestyle. It was then Savannah that the early human populations decided to take advantage of favorable farming conditions. Among them was a mysterious man who lived in the southwest of the now southwestern Libya and had to be genetically sub-tachara, except for modern analysis, their genes did not reflect it.
The team of researchers at the Institute of Anthropology of Max Planck Evolution of Archeogenesis from Max Planck’s Institute of Evolution analyzed two 7,000 -year -old, naturally preserved neolithic female shepherds mummy genes from Takarkori Rock shelters. Although the genetic material does not preserve the dry climate, much about the populations of ancient people in the Sahara remains a mystery, and DNA has been sufficiently broken down to allow insights into their past.
“Most of the ancestors of Takarkori stem from previously unknown North Africa’s genetic origin, which differed from Africa to the lines south of the Sahara at about the same time as the current people outside Africa remained isolated throughout their existence,” they said in a recently proclaimed study.
Persons Takarkori are actually close to the relatives of 15,000 years of feed from Tafortis cave in Morocco. Both lines have approximately the same genetic distance from the Sahara groups, which existed during that period, which indicates that there was not much flow of North African genes at that time. Taaporalt people also have half of the Neanderthal not African genes, but Takarkori is ten times less. Surprisingly, they still have more Neanderthal DNA than others south of the Sahara nations that were nearby at the time.
Although Takarkori apparently had less contact with Neanderthals than Tafortalt, they must somehow have more contacts than other groups in their region. There is also evidence of Levant farmers. Otherwise, Takarkor genes reveal that they were mostly isolated. They were genetically close to northwestern African feed, such as Taforct, but otherwise different from the Sahara populations.
This can only mean that there was not much genetic exchange in the Green Sahara in the wet period of Africa. In the past, it was believed that the practice of farming spread through the region by migration. The Salem team has another explanation.
“Our conclusions show that pastoral diffusion through cultural diffusion into a very different, isolated origin of North Africa, which was probably widespread in North Africa during the late Pleistocene era,” they said in the same study.
Farming seems to spread as practices between cultures, not migration. It is believed that Takarkori inherited its genes from a group of hunters-gathers, which was around until the animals were domesticated and farming began. Despite the fact that there are hunters-gathers, Takarkori’s ancestors have made progress in the production of ceramics, baskets and tools made of wood and bones. They also stayed in one place for a longer period of time.
The reason the Takarkori remained isolated is probably related to the variety of green Sahara environment. They ranged from lakes and wetlands to forests to meadows, savannahs and even mountains. Such differences in habitat were obstacles to the interaction between human populations.
Somewhere in the Sahara sand and time in the sand, hidden mummies or artefacts, waiting for more to tell us about what life was in the desert until it dries.
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