Oetzi's descendants

[sandbender]

"...Austrian scientists have found that 19 Tyrolean men alive today are related to Oetzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old frozen body was found in the Alps...."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24477038

 

[Toddy]

Excellent

Thank you for the link

cheers,
M

 

[sandbender]

Excellent

Thank you for the link

cheers,
M

You are welcome.

Also possibly of interest to some...

"...DNA from ancient skeletons has revealed how a complex patchwork of prehistoric migrations fashioned the modern European gene pool..."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24475342

Apparently for most of us our recent ancestors came from Spain/Portugal.

"...Largely absent from Central European hunters and scarce in early Neolithic farmers, H remains the dominant maternal lineage in Europe today and comparisons between the Bell Beaker people and modern populations suggest they came from Iberia - modern Spain and Portugal..."