Thoughts?
Posted by mightywolf (Member # 23402) on :
The paper is interesting. It's intriguing that Mota- like DNA existed very far in the North, in Northern Sudan.
I didn't expect this Mota component to be so widespread, since I believed it was mainly concentrated in Ethiopia. This is my first impression after reading the info briefly.
Posted by BrandonP (Member # 3735) on :
While it is disappointing that we only got one genome and that it's later than Neolithic like what some people were hoping for, I do think it's cool that it comes from the early days of the Kingdom of Kush (aka the Kerma period). One genetic sample won't be enough to say how the whole population looked, but at least we know what one person in the region looked like on a genetic level during that period in time.
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
I'm not at all surprised by the findings. We always thought that Mota ancestry had a wider distribution than just the Horn region and that it originated further north.
The paper prior to release was initially discussed here
quote:Originally posted by Elmaestro: Here's a quick look into KDR001 Autosomal make up posted on Revoiye.
quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: I'm not at all surprised by the findings. We always thought that Mota ancestry had a wider distribution than just the Horn region and that it originated further north.
The paper prior to release was initially discussed here
quote:Originally posted by Elmaestro: Here's a quick look into KDR001 Autosomal make up posted on Revoiye.
With all due respect to whoever was behind that article, they clearly got a lot of things wrong just from a quick comparison of PCAs and runs on any software using the same SPN he used. That’s mostly why I wanted to post the full write up since I saw tonnes of misconceptions about this find.
