LUSAKA: Morten Allentoft and Eske Willerslev are paleogenomicists with the Natural History Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen. Together, they led a team that has been constantly finding new and incredible facts about the Bronze Age.
Using analysis from ancient population genomics, this research group has been able to answer many long-standing questions regarding ancient civilizations in Eurasia. This includes questions on the cultural expansion or inter-cultural exchanges.
Genomics, of course, is the term used to describe the complete set of DNA within a single cell; and most of these DNA rest in the within the nucleus of a cell.
The researchers say, “Our study is the first real large-scale population genomic study ever undertaken on ancient individuals. We analyzed genome sequence data from 101 past individuals. This is more than a doubling of the number of genomic sequenced individuals of prehistoric man generated to date. The study is without any comparison to anything previously made.”
This discovery says that Eurasians in the Bronze Age—the early Yamna culture—influenced Europeans through migration. The study found that genomes of the Yamnaya people could actually be traced within the genetic traits of early Middle-Eastern and European people. This, then, explains why their technological practices, customs, languages, and traditions appear to have several traits in common.
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