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New #OpenAccess paper out today in @Nature! We present new #AncientDNA data on ancient African foragers (people who hunted, gathered, & fished), including what are now the oldest #aDNA sequences from sub-Saharan Africa! 1/21 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…
For an easily digestible summary of what we were looking for & what we found, check out our archaeologically-focused companion piece in @TheConversationUS by me, @archaeochica & @prendydigs theconversation.com/ancient-dna-he… 2/21
Paper itself is the product of a 5+ years work by 44 authors from 19 countries incl @prendydigs @archaeochica @kathrynranhorn @KendraSirak @johnwarthur @AyodoDr @BertacchiAlex @MatthewCCurtis @AGidna @KatongoMaggie @Myra__Laird @endiema @ogola_christine @WilloughbyPam @DJ_Kennett
New paper out today in @Nature with @prendydigs, @smaceachern2, @ICrevecoeur & others! Pleased to be part of this team presenting the 1st #ancientDNA sequences out of West/Central Africa from 4 kids who have us rethinking #archaeology & #humanorigins. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/n
We sequenced #aDNA from 2 pairs of kids buried at the amazing site of Shum Laka in the ‘Grassfields’ region of Cameroon – 4 & 15 year old boys who died ~8000 years ago, & an 8yo boy & 4yo girl from ~3000 years ago. The site spans the important Stone to Metal Age transition. 2/n
Cameroon is VERY interesting to archaeologists because that’s where Bantu languages likely originated, and the people who spoke them who spread out across much of sub-Saharan Africa after ~4000 years ago. Were the children at Shum Laka part of this population? 3/n
