We thought the first hunter-gatherers in Europe went missing during the last ice age. Now, ancient DNA analysis says otherwise
- Written by: Adam "Ben" Rohrlach, Mathematics Lecturer and Archaeogeneticist, University of Adelaide
Reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer associated with the Gravettian culture.Tom BjoerklundHunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian Peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today.
Modern humans first began to spread across Eurasia...