30,000-year-old genome from French cave reveals unexpected genetic mixing in Stone Age Europe
Grave of a Gravettian woman in Isturitz Cave shows Eastern and Western European populations were not isolated, study finds
Scientists have sequenced the genomes of three Late Stone Age people who lived in Europe 30,000 years ago and discovered genetic mixing between Eastern and Western populations, overturning the long-held assumption that the two groups remained separate. The finding, published Oct. 23 in Science Advances, suggests that southwestern France was a key cultural and biological crossroads during the last ice age.