Monday, January 27, 2014

Montana Dalton 2nd - 7000 years ago.

Recently a group of scientists have discovered a skeleton structure of a man who has been estimated to live around 7000 years ago. They from researched a pigmentation gene extracted from one of the mans tooth, which has revealed that he had dark skin like an African-American however he also had  blue eyes like those of a Scandinavian. Scientists said that  "suggesting the light skin of modern Europeans was not yet ubiquitous in Mesolithic times." As they looked more and more into case "La Brana 1", they discovered some of his traits. They know that he was a hunter gatherer, with african gene traces and he specifically had trouble digesting milk. Scientists found this rather odd, until their studies persisted true as they found a "La Brana 2", another skeletal man from the same cave.

I find this so incredibly interesting, discoveries like this are occurring everyday. Who knows, we might discover a whole new ethnic group and learn of their history as technology and researchers become more and more advanced. Its crazy to think that entire civilizations, and cultures have been lost into our history though, and makes me wonder how will we have impact history in a couple thousand years.
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What humans may have looked like 7,000 years ago

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