Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa

For the first time, evidence indicates shipping across the Mediterranean around 6500 BC. The research team with Viennese participation used DNA data for this.

Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry

The approximately 8,000-year-old remains that came to light from areas of present-day Tunisia were surprising, according to an international team of scientists. It turned out that the people who found the last resting place on the northern coast of Africa came partly from European hunter-gatherers.

Neolithic DNA Analysis from Northwest Africa Reveals Some Hunter-Gatherers Held Out On Farming

Discover how genetic data supports archeological evidence that some hunter-gatherers who originated in Europe ‘held out’ on farming, dared to cross Mediterranean