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One of the major Bell Beaker burial sites is under a place called Hemp Hill in Britain. Kind of makes you wonder just how long hemp was grown at Hemp Hill.

Thanks, Hope. They updated the page after I read it. I imagine the prankster is very proud of himself.

An archaeological team in London announced the discovery of legendary Boudicca's tomb at King's Cross Station in London. The article describes a chariot burial and a well preserved body of a woman with red hair...

The journey from Southern Siberia to Anatolia is an easy one I think. It can be best explained by the extinction of Megafauna such as the Mammoth and Asian Bison. It was probably these two animals that the first Americans depended on the most (being also derived from P-M45) The Siberians drove...

This is a very interesting question. There have been some misplaced assumptions about the origin of PIE and what would be considered a serious proposal. They have been mostly driven by a lazy scientists and scholars unwilling to consider unconventional scenarios and Paleolithic Continuity...

A coalescence time for M417, not R1a. Also, a CT time for divergence of R1* at 25,000 is a bit long given that, as I understand Mal'ta was only M207, which culturally fits an earlier split from P-M45. So basically, I think the math works.

Well first, LP does have, apparently, a single phylogenetic origin, so that happened somewhere. Founder events most likely explain why there are differences among populations. But also, there are multi-variety LP genes where two or three are found in West Africa or East Africa, for example. I...

Here's a post by Maju regarding the phylogeny of LP genes associated with certain populations. Here we see that T-13910, G-13915 and G-13907, being variously responsible for Lactase Persistence, have a genetic relationship. Moreover, given the phylogeny, these relationships seem to suggest...

Maciamo, you had theorized previously that the spread of incipient farming spread with y-chromsomal lineages descended from K-M526. Although large scale farming was limited to the Near East and East Asia at the begining of the Holocene, it seems many Sapiens were doing primative gardening on...

The main point of the Wilde paper argues for "rapid selection" of these complexion genes. (Which follows on the heels of a paper batting down the 'rapid selection' of lactase persistance rates in modern Europeans) Of course, this rapid selection simply doesn't jive with the historical record...

The Lembombo Bone of Swaziland near South Africa is the oldest example of mathematical computation at approximately 37 years ago...

First of all I apologize for not being able to post more pictures. A number of the Tassilli rock art photos are from personal collections and appear copy righted and I'm not sure how to navigate that. Then I got distracted doing other things. As far as the ethnic Kabyles and other Berbers...

I don't know the dating of this photo, but the man throwing the spear appears to be blonde. It's a little difficult to make out in this photo, but in others its definetly blonde. I'm not sure what is in his other hand. He appears to be wearing a short kilt. The other man is wearing a covering...

We have no depictions of Beaker people that I am aware of. But while studying the rock art of North African pastoralists, I realized that the dating of some of the rock art is contemporaneous with the usage of North African Beakerware and in roughly the same location, also coinciding or slightly...

The modern promotion of cow's milk is probably mostly tied to Quakerism in the US and UK. The Quakers promoted its consumption believing 'it does the body good' to use a cliche, and for that, securing about 1/4 of the real estate of the modern US grocery store for isles of Quaker cereals and...

I think the answer to this question can probably be found by reversing the question. 1. Why aren't all humans in Eurasia 100% lactase persistent? After all, it is claimed to be a super-gene and cattle have been kept in Egypt, Mespotamia, China and Southern Europe since...forever. But LP is...

I'm not suggesting that these technologies came from Europe necessarily or at all, as in my view they most likely came from Asia, but I don't buy the multi-invention scenario. Take ceramic pottery, for example. Identifying high silica content base material, its refinement, tempering, coiling...

I think only from the testing of ancient remains would we know if this seemingly unlikely event happened. As you've said, dna outside of the standard Q/C +A-X paradigm would look indistinguishable from European colonial mixing, especially if there was an introgression about the time of the...

I'm neutral on Solutrean or variations, but I wouldn't consider it a crank theory, especially with two European Mesolithic individuals belonging to similar haplogroups as common in Native America. (Admittedly a much different clade of C and undetermined Q). Also, Clovis may have only been a...

Not very convincing that Haplogroup H is Magdalenian Paleolithic. First of all, it isn't surprising to see Haplogroup H entering Europe at the beginning of Neolithic. It would have spread through the Cardial Ware Culture in the Mediterranean and the Linear Pottery Culture in temperate Europe...