Lecture | Genetic History of Europe Adaptation and Migration in Prehistory | Johannes

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Lecture | Genetic History of Europe Adaptation and Migration in Prehistory | Johannes Krause








Nov 21, 2023

Ancient DNA can reveal prehistoric events that are difficult to discern through the study of archaeological remains and modern genetic variation alone. Over the last decade, the newly founded field of archaeogenetics has analysed more than 5,000 ancient human genomes spanning the last 10,000 years of Western Eurasian prehistory.

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In this lecture, Johannes Krause will introduce us to the field of archaeogenetics and its discoveries. He will show that all modern European populations today are a genetic mix of those steppe herders, early Anatolian farmers and indigenous European hunter-gatherers, in varying proportions. Furthermore, he will show that over the course of the past 10,000 years, genetic mix and local biological adaptation have brought about major changes in human phenotypes, such as eye colour, skin colour and the ability to digest lactose.

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This lecture is organised in cooperation with the Eugène Dubois Foundation, Eijsden, in special remembrance of Prof. dr. Joep Geraedts. He was the founding father of the Department of Clinical Genetics at Maastricht UMC+ and one of the founders and the first chairman of the Eugène Dubois Foundation.

[Riverman]

He claims that Basque, Paleosardian and Minoan should have been one language family - rather not. What had the Minoans to do with the EEF in Western Europe? Probably something, but we already know they had way more haplogroup J2 and a recent pulse from Anatolia-Levante. Likely they spoke a different language than the Western EEF. How close Basque and old Sardinian is, well, I can't judge that, but seems to be speculative as well. He has too much confidence in his conclusion of one language group in the Mediterranean/EEF.

At the same time he kind of questions Baltic and Slavic being one language family. Well, ethnolinguistic theories are not his strength...

[RCO]

Krause keeps the Iranian origin of Proto-Indo-European just as he wrote in his book.