Sunday, December 30, 2012

Iceman mummy finds his closest relatives | Synopsis

Iceman mummy finds his closest relatives

[Piazetta Monteoliveto, Naples, Italy] (LOC)
[Piazetta Monteoliveto, Naples, Italy] (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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SAN FRANCISCO? tzi the Iceman, an astonishingly well-preserved Neolithic mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991, was a native of Central Europe, not a first-generation?migr? from Sardinia, new research shows. And genetically, he looked a lot like other Stone Age farmers throughout Europe. The new findings, reported Thursday (Nov. 8) here at the American Society of Human Genetics conference, support the theory that farmers, and not just the technology of farming, spread during prehistoric times from the Middle East all the way to Finland. "The idea is that the spread of farming and agriculture, right now we have good evidence that it was also associated with a movement of people and not only technology," said study co-author Martin Sikora, a geneticist at Stanford University. In what may be the world's oldest cold case,?

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Martin Sikora

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0"Maybe ?tzi was just a tourist, maybe his parents were Sardinian and he decided to move to the Alps," Sikora said. ...
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Chris Gignoux

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0.151507"I think it's really intriguing," Gignoux said. ...
0.0746514"I think it's really intriguing," Gignoux said. "The more that people are sequencing these ancient genomes from Europe, that we're really starting to see the impact of farmers moving into Europe."
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Country: Sweden

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Country: Bulgaria

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