By analysing DNA extracted from the petrous bones of skulls of ancient Europeans, scientists have identified that these peoples remained intolerant to lactose (natural sugar in the milk of mammals) for 5,000 years after they adopted agricultural practices and 4,000 years after the onset of cheese-making among Central European Neolithic farmers. Continue reading “Ancient Europeans intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture”
Britain’s prehistoric catastrophe revealed: How 90% of the neolithic population vanished in just 300 years
Extraordinary new genetic evidence is revealing how Britain experienced a mysterious almost total change in its population in just a few centuries after the construction of Stonehenge.
It suggests that some sort of social, economic or epidemiological catastrophe unfolded. Continue reading “Britain’s prehistoric catastrophe revealed: How 90% of the neolithic population vanished in just 300 years”
Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands
Here you can read the ‘abstract’ of the corresponding paper by Eva Fernández , Alejandro Pérez-Pérez, Cristina Gamba, Eva Prats, Pedro Cuesta, Josep Anfruns, Miquel Molist, Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo, Daniel Turbón
Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 – 3 400 BC
Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 – 3 400 BC, in other words 4 500 years before the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis. Continue reading “Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 – 3 400 BC”
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