A team of scientists, led by researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox from
CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), has recovered - for
the first time in history - part of the genome of two
individuals living in the Mesolithic Period, 7000 years ago.
Remains have been found at La Braña-Arintero site, located at
Valdelugueros (León), Spain. The study results, published in the
Current Biology magazine, indicate that current Iberian
populations don't come from these groups genetically.This
appears quite consistent with my model of mostly recent origins
of European populations from a West Asian womb of nations. I
can't wait to get my hands on this new data. In the genomic
analysis, it is interesting to see that the La Braña individuals
do not cluster with modern populations from Southern Europe,
including those from the Iberian Peninsula. The first PC
separates a north-south distribution, whereas the second follows
a general east-west pattern in modern Europeans. The position of
La Braña individuals in the 1000 Genomes Pro