Compelling Archaeology

Neanderthals from Goyet Cave in Belgium hunted down several Neanderthal women and ate them 42kya. Was this a lone Neanderthal Ted Bundy or a group hunt? youtu.be/edrP34O5d7k

Kabwe/Broken Hill Skull has what appears to be a bullet hole, with a perfectly round entry and large exit wound typical of bullet injuries

@hhhhhhbbhhbbbb Very misleading chart. Greater than 42,000 years is a time period? Not very specific.

@hhhhhhbbhhbbbb The chart shows 2 genes with 90%+ probability of older than 42kya, which means they are ancient. The other Allele rs1426654 dates to 29ka, but the Locus is ancient.

Light Skin genes existed long before 29,000 years ago as we are often told. The specific variant common today is 29ka, but the allele is 139ka.

@hhhhhhbbhhbbbb The derived (G) allele associated with light skin pigmentation is most common in Europeans and San and dates to 921 kya

@LeoBaezChava @AncientEpoch When the farmers arrived, the hunter gatherer genetics disappeared.

@CompellingDNA @AncientEpoch They must have had a series of open border Democratic administrations? —just kidding

Reviewing a groundbreaking genetic study of the peopling of the Americas 🧬 🧾 Published in 2018 in Science by J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, et al 🔑 Key Points: 📉 They found evidence of rapid dispersal and early diversification that included unknown groups as people moved south. 💹 This resulted in multiple independent, geographically uneven migrations, including one that provides clues of a Late Pleistocene Australasian genetic signal. 👀 ⏳ Ancestral Native Americans diverged from Siberian/East Asian ancestors ~23 ka ⏳ They split into Ancient Beringians and later NAs ~21 ka in Beringia. ⌛️ The later NAs then split into Northern Native American & Southern Native American branches ~15.5 ka 👻 There was admixture with at least one unknown group that branched off before the NNA–SNA split. 💹 Before ~10.4 ka, some early South American groups received ~2–3 % ancestry related to Australasians. 👻 Ghost group was absent in North America and older samples. It later appears (diluted) in some present-day Amazonian groups but not most others. 👻 The ghost pop was neither Ancient Beringian, Northern Native American , nor Southern Native American they contributed ~11 % ancestry to Mesoamerican groups.

@kerwin65230 @djfreg1 You said it "I always heard East Africa as most likely in the simple model" You only heard this because it is promoted by National Geographic, BBC and English media. You don't hear alternatives.

@CompellingDNA @djfreg1 How is that a conspiracy?

John Hawks doesn't believe Pan African evolution is plausible given the fact there were too many archaic hominins stomping around Africa during this time, and the model also ignores Into Africa events.

@kerwin65230 @djfreg1 When did you first hear about jebel irhoud? I bet it wasn't before 2017. They knew it was an important early Homo sapiens back in the 1970s and totally ignored it in favor of East Africa because that is where the British had access.

@CompellingDNA @djfreg1 Did they? I always heard East Africa as most likely in the simple model Nobody hid anything. You are being a kook

@kerwin65230 Possible, but 'Out of North Africa' and 'Out of East Africa' are two different theories that are totally incompatible. Different fossils, different timelines. As different as Out of Asia and Out of Europe.

@CompellingDNA Yes he is saying it can’t be the whole of Africa if there was so much divergence in lineages I think JH believes it was East Africa , North Africa and Near East where gene flow happen with archaics in Eurasia JH and DR still believe in OoA just not a simple one

LIGHT SKIN EVOLVED 900,000 YEARS AGO science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

41,500 Year old wooden object from Poland may show a 30 day lunar cycle. This was during the Pole Shift, so keeping track of lunar cycles could be related to hunting.

@Moss_Trooper San split off from other Homo sapiens around 200k years ago and migrated into Southern Africa. There were no other Homo sapiens there which is why they stayed isolated and retained their ancient haplogroups.

@CompellingDNA Can someone please explain the San?100,000 years plus (and long before the main OoA event) in most of the Eastern side of Africa - much of this time completely isolated from the rest of humanity - and after all that time they are as they are.

Study: "The derived allele associated with light skin pigmentation in Europeans... dates to 921,000 Years Ago." Neanderthals and Denisovans also had this allele. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Archaeology in Africa is still split along old Colonial boundaries. French in North Africa, British in East Africa. This is why the British prefer Out of East Africa, and the French prefer Out of North Africa.

@robertosaezm Similar age to Penghu Mandible. Populations getting drowned out before interglacial.

Dos fragmentos de cráneo de Homo erectus datados en 162 y 119 ka (Java, Indonesia). The newly uncovered Madura Strait fossil assemblage and its role in Pleistocene hominin dispersals in Southeast Asia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An unusual Ice Age European skull. Once thought to be much older, now dated to 15,000 years.

Source and Sink is an interesting concept for Africa as well.

A “source and sink” model for East Asia? Preliminary approach through the dental evidence. 🧐 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@dfossier Possible. Naledi is closest to Homo georgicus erectus and Naledi-like skulls also found in Kenya, so the hybridization with Antecessor could have happened in North Africa.

To be frank, I find it entirely plausible that erectus evolved into naledi in SA, which then hybridized with antecessor in the ME creating the sapiens line. at that point we were a very coastal species, moving along the Mediterranean and along the east coast of Africa. I don't find the article you quoted to be convincing at all, seems just like speculation from disbelief, not evidence.

In 2003, they said that Herto was the nail in the coffin to any theory challenging Out of East Africa. Now, 23 years later Herto has been quietly retired because it falls well outside Homo sapiens variation.

A review of European Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution 🧐sciencedirect.com/science/articl…