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#Bell beaker code

Moon Rituals, Head-Binding, and Ground-up Bones: Highlighting the Mysterious Beaker People.

Actually, Reich says, "the orthodoxy - the assumption that present-day people are directly descended from the people who always lived in that same area - is wrong almost everywhere." "There was a view that migration is a very rare process in human evolution," Reich explains. Together with his lab's previous work and that of other pioneers of ancient DNA, the Big Picture message is that our prehistoric ancestors were not nearly as homebound as once thought. ( Public Domain) Ancient DNA studies provide surprising information on our prehistoric ancestors. ‘The Stone Age’ (1882-1885), detail of a painting by Viktor M. "When we look at the data, we see surprises again and again and again," says Reich. The new flood of genetic information represents a "coming of age" for the nascent field of ancient DNA, says lead author David Reich, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Harvard Medical School - and it upends cherished archeological orthodoxy.

Two papers published in the journal Nature on February 21, 2018, more than double the number of ancient humans whose DNA has been analyzed and published to 1,336 individuals - up from just 10 in 2014.

#Bell beaker code

Now there's a powerful new approach for illuminating the world before the dawn of written history - reading the actual genetic code of our ancient ancestors. Scientists once could reconstruct humanity's distant past only from the mute testimony of ancient settlements, bones, and artifacts.