tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137409915847697670.post1748852874451445999..comments2024-03-17T18:41:00.382-03:00Comments on Patagonian monsters: Into Africa gaining strengthAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389280995003336103noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137409915847697670.post-17236237129554775872016-02-09T20:19:36.324-03:002016-02-09T20:19:36.324-03:00Thank you Neil, yes, the paper was retracted.
Whic...Thank you Neil, yes, the paper was retracted.<br />Which goes to show that sometimes the programs used to run simulations can add a bias to studies. Who knows what other ones lie hidden in previous papers on genetics.<br />I have already posted about the subject of "models" and "simulations"<br /><br /><br />http://www.nature.com/news/error-found-in-study-of-first-ancient-african-genome-1.19258AWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11389280995003336103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137409915847697670.post-11756065908539139052016-02-01T06:24:09.797-03:002016-02-01T06:24:09.797-03:00Hi Austin, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but ...Hi Austin, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the part of the paper concerning ancient Neolithic farmer back migration into Africa has been retracted by the one of the authors. Listen to his radio interview here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yfjdp<br />NeilBNeilBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16814047959223706379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137409915847697670.post-90720677302431036362015-11-15T18:36:32.162-03:002015-11-15T18:36:32.162-03:00I share below an e-mail I received, which is very ...I share below an e-mail I received, which is very interesting:<br /><br />Dear Mr. Whittall:<br /><br />Concerning your article „Into Africa gaining strength“ from October 10th,<br />I would like to offer a possible explanation for a European migration into<br />Africa: The Sea Peoples. Hittite, Ugaritian, and Egyptian sources tell<br />about invaders from the North and Northwest, whose ethnicity is still not<br />entirely certain.<br /><br />F.C. Woudhuizen, in his 2006 dissertation, assumes that the Ekwesh, Denyen<br />and Peleset came from Asia Minor and Greece and the Teresh and<br />Tjeker/Teukroi from the Troas region (Woudhuizen 2006: 117-118). The<br />Sherden’s original home is supposed to be Sardinia (Woudhuizen 2006: 118),<br />whereas the Weshes are said to be Italian descendants of the Urnfield<br />culture (Woudhuizen 2006: 119).<br />Shelley Wachsmann, however, assumes a component in the Sea Peoples coming<br />directly from the Urnfield culture (Wachsmann 2000: 123-130).<br /><br />The latest dissertation, Peczynski (2009), sums up: „The debate has<br />settled somewhat and scholars agree that the Sea Peoples hailed from Asia<br />Minor, the Aegean, the Balkans, and Cyprus” (Peczynski 2009: 39).<br /><br />The abovementioned theories coincide with a statement made by<br />Callego-Lloriente et alli: „In this analysis, contemporary Sardinians and<br />the early Neolithic LBK (Stuttgart) genome stand out (Fig. 2A).“<br /><br />The main source for the end of the Sea Peoples’ migration, the Papyrus<br />Harris I, contains a claim made by Ramses IV. that his predecessor, Ramses<br />III., not only presided over a victory over the Sea Peoples but also made<br />them Egyptian subjects (Peczynski 2009: 24. Papyrus Harris I). It is<br />unclear, however, where the surviving participants of the invasion were<br />settled. Sherden are mentioned as settlers in Middle Egypt (Peczynski 2009:<br />25). The Philistines are cleary Sea People, but it seems likely to me that<br />many of the defeated invaders were settled in Nubia. Central Egypt was<br />already at that time relatively densely populated, and fortified garrisons<br />were situated in the border areas rather than in the Egyptian mainland<br />(Dunn 2015). A settlement of Sea Peoples in Nubia would explain the<br />European population expansion into Africa.<br /><br />Kindest regards<br />Yours,<br /><br />Martin C. Ross<br />Erlangen, Germany<br /><br /><br />___________________________<br /><br /><br />Dunn, Jimmy (2015) Military architecture of Ancient Egypt.<br />[http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/fortresses.htm | 21. Oct. 2015]<br /><br /><br />Gallego-Llorente, M.; Jones, E.R.; Eriksson, A.; Siska, V.; Arthur, K.W.;<br />Arthur, J.W.; Curtis, M.C.; Stock, J.T.; Coltorti, M.; Pieruccini, P.;<br />Stretton. S.; Brock, F.; Higham, T.; Park, Y.; Hofreiter, M.; Bradley,<br />D.G.; Bhak, J.; Pinhasi, R.; Manica, A. (2015) „Ancient Ethiopian genome<br />reveals extensive Eurasian admixture throughout the African continent.“<br />Scienceexpress (2015-10-08) 10.1126/science.aad2879<br /><br />Onomasticon of Amenope<br />[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomasticon_of_Amenope | 9. Nov. 2015]<br /><br />Papyrus Harris I [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Harris_I | 9. Nov.<br />2015]<br /><br />Peczynski, Shell (2009) The Sea People and their migration. New Brunswick,<br />NJ. (Rutgers Univ.: PhD; 2009).<br />[http://history.rutgers.edu/undergraduate/honors-program/honors-papers-2009/155-the-sea-people-and-their-migration/file<br />| 11. Nov. 2015]<br /><br />Török, Lászlo (1997) The kingdom of Kush: handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic<br />civilization. Leiden; New York; Cologne: Brill. (Handbook of oriental<br />studies; 31,1).<br /><br />Urnfield culture [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnfield_culture | 13.<br />Nov. 2015]<br /><br />Wachsmann, Shelley (2000) „To the sea of the Philistines.” The Sea Peoples<br />and their world: A re-assessment. Ed. Oren, Elieser D. Philadelphia, PA:<br />Pennsylvania Univ. Mus., 2000: 103-141.<br /><br />Woudhuizen, Frederik C. (2006) The ethnicity of the Sea Peoples.<br />Rotterdam. (Univ. Rotterdam: PhD; 2006).<br />[http://www.academia.edu/7287651/The_Ethnicity_of_the_Sea_Peoples_dissertation_<br />| 11. Nov. 2015]<br />AWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11389280995003336103noreply@blogger.com