https://johnhawks.net/weblog/the-top-10-discoveries-about-ancient-people-from-dna-in-2022/
The papers filled a hole in earlier research on DNA from more northerly archaeological sites across the steppes of eastern Europe. Over the last seven years, ancient DNA has grown to support the idea that today's widespread Indo-European language family emerged from an early Bronze Age steppe group that archaeologists know as the Yamnaya culture. But the DNA data did not yet cover Anatolia, where some of the earliest-known Indo-European languages existed.
The new work confirms a modest steppe contribution to Bronze Age Anatolian populations, and the presence of steppe-derived Y chromosome lineages in this region and in Mycenean Greece. The research also sheds light on early farming populations in Anatolia and nearby Mesopotamia, showing a complex series of interactions among Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic populations of the region.
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/what-color-were-neandertals/
That's not because we have scientific evidence that Neandertal soft tissue facial anatomy, hair patterning, or even pigmentation were like today's Europeans. It's because scientists and artists for a century have seen them through a Eurocentric lens.
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/ancient-fire-use-rising-star/
Sites with evidence of fire go back in Africa more than 1.5 million years.
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/when-did-our-ancestors-start-looking-up-to-the-stars/
Ideas about the relationship between ancient red pigments and menstruation have been expressed by many archaeologists and anthropologists; one good exposition of these ideas is by Christopher Knight in the book Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture.
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