October 01, 2005

Prehistoric North Africans were Caucasoid

ANTHROPOLOGIE
Volume 43/1, 2005, pp. 1-11

Diversité mitochondriale de la population de taforalt(12.000 ans bp - maroc): une approche génétique a l'étude du peuplement de l'afrique du nord

KÉFI R., STEVANOVITCH A., BOUZAID E., BÉRAUD-COLOMB E.

ABSTRACT

The population exhumed from the archaeological site of Taforalt in Morocco (12,000 years BP) is a valuable source of information toward a better knowledge of the settlement of Northern Africa region and provides a revolutionary way to specify the origin of Ibero-Maurusian populations. Ancient DNA was extracted from 31 bone remains from Taforalt.The HVS1 fragment of the mitochondrial DNA control region was PCR-amplified and directly sequenced. Mitochondrial diversity in Taforalt shows the absence of sub-Saharan haplogroups suggesting that Ibero-Maurusian individuals had not originated in sub-Saharan region. Our results reveal a probable local evolution of Taforalt population and a genetic continuity in North Africa.

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1 comment:

  1. I found a power point presentation for this that gave the DNA as..

    Eurasiatic Component : H, U, JT, V: 90.5%

    North African component: U6: 9.5 %

    This must have made a few Afrocentrists spit blood. That the Gobero population in Niger is so close to the Taforalt population must be winding them up no end.

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