Ancient DNA in Cave Sediment Offers Clues to Ice Age People
Genetic traces in El Mirón Cave were studied without using bones from the sediment layer.
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What does the cave material suggest about ancestry in the region, and why is the method useful when bones are missing?
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It suggests ancestry linked to earlier western European groups continued there for thousands of years. Researchers can study DNA preserved in sediment without needing human bones or teeth from that layer.
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