February
05
/ 2016
A recent study has shown that a group of hunter-gatherers had survived the last Ice Age while living in the modern location of Europe, only to unexpectedly disappear about 14,500 years ago. As the Newspaper El País reports, when scientists began to study the genetic material of humanity’s ancient ancestors about 30 years ago, they commenced on a quest for knowledge about a time in our collective past that was generally believed to have been lost forever. Several studies that have arisen since then have shown that all of the hard work has not been in vain. Now, research including Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and published in the journal Current
