Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa

nature.com

120 points by gmays a month ago


BurningFrog - a month ago

> Many potential stopovers are now submerged

If I was a billionaire, I'd look into funding tech for excavating coastlines during the ice age(s), That's where any 10k old civilizations must have been.

owl_vision - a month ago

No need for boat during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. This seems to imply once the water started taking over, eyesight navigation was the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis

WalterBright - a month ago

How does DNA show they traveled by sea?

verisimi - a month ago

https://archive.is/6N7Qr

Simon_O_Rourke - a month ago

Ex-pats not immigrants.

mjfl - a month ago

Wasn’t the water level lower back then? How much smaller was the Mediterranean?

fdb345 - a month ago

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calrain - a month ago

Could the legend of Atlantis just been a reference to early European sailors visiting North Africa, across the Mediterranean?

dgfitz - a month ago

> Hunter-gatherers from Europe and North Africa could have traversed the Sicilian Strait in long wooden canoes, navigating from island to island by sight. Many potential stopovers are now submerged, making it hard to find further evidence for these voyages, Lucarini adds.

The title is misleading.

blindriver - a month ago

The story that civilization started 5-6000 years ago in Mesopotamia is pretty quickly eroding away. It’s interesting to see all the new evidence for advanced technology existing much earlier than expected.