Well this topic sure is a shit show.
History Channel? Wow...
Egyptians were most likely descended from a mixture of Semitic and other Mediterranean peoples. Yes, there were blacks in ancient Egypt, but they were not the basal population.
Not as such, no, but there is an interesting theory that when the Hyksos (most likely a confederation of Semitic tribes from the Levant) entered Egypt, Hebrews may have been among the confederation, who came in first as migrant laborers (not slaves), and then ended up taking over Egypt for 100 years or so before being driven out.
Bollocks, considering Turks are for the most part genetically identical to Greeks, Armenians, and Kurds. You know, the natives of Anatolia. The central Asian Turkic admixture is there, sure, but the bulk of their lineage is from local populations. And Greeks are not that dark. There are Greeks who are blonde and blue-eyed. My grandfather was one. Hell, not all Turks are even that dark. I've known plenty of Turks from the Istanbul area that could fit in as European. I had a boss named Ali, the guy had grey eyes and strawberry hair.
Now yes, there was a small amount of admixture with Slavs in parts of northern Greece (Thrace and Macedonia). But it's more accruate to say that Turks are mostly Greek, Armenian, and Kurd rather than the other way around.
There were people almost everywhere by that point, it's not very impressive. I think what they are referring to is more advanced cultures, the sort of thing you'd call a civilization, not just neolithic farmers or hunter-gatherers. Hell, farming entered the Balkans before spread to the rest of Europe around 6000-7000 years ago, but again, can we really call if a full civilization at that point?
https://www.livescience.com/19924-ag...th-europe.html
An analysis of 5,000-year-old genetic material from preserved human remains found in Sweden suggests that people moving from southern to northern Europe spread agriculture across that continent long ago.
In addition to agricultural know-how, the intrepid farmers brought their genes: They interbred with hunter-gatherer communities to create modern humans living in Europe today.
"Genetic variation of today's Europeans was strongly affected by immigrant Stone Age farmers, though a number of hunter-gatherer genes remain," study researcher Anders Götherström, of Uppsala University in Sweden, said in a statement.
The results of this study, to be published in the April 27 issue of the journal Science, match up well with previous archeological evidence of farming in Europe.
The researchers studied the remains from four humans, one found on an ancient farm in Gökhem parish, likely belonging to a member of the agricultural Funnel Beaker culture. Less than 250 miles away, a second set of remains from three humans were unearthed on the island of Gotland, from hunter-gatherers of the Pitted Ware culture.
"We know that the hunter-gatherer remains were buried in flatbed grave sites, in stark contrast to the megalithic sites that the farmers built," said study researcher Mattias Jakobsson, also from Uppsala University. "The farmer we analyzed was buried under such a megalith, and that's just one difference that helps distinguish the two cultures."
Researchers already knew a fair bit about these different cultures and the excavated remains, though nobody had looked at their genetics. In the new study, the team analyzed the bones' genetic information to see how the humans differed from each other genetically as well as from other modern humans.
The group analyzed thousands of genetic markers from each Stone Age individual. The genetics of the hunter-gatherer sample looked similar to that of modern northern Europeans (from countries like Finland), while the genes isolated from the Stone Age farmer looked more like modern southern Europeans who live along the Mediterranean Sea.
Interestingly, these ancient genomes don't share many similarities with modern-day Swedes, despite their discovery and excavations in Sweden.
These southern Europeans, who were genetically distinct from the hunter-gatherer societies in the area, seem to have brought their agriculture knowledge north, where they made their homes and likely interbred with hunter-gatherers in what is now Sweden. [10 Wedding Traditions from Around the World]
"When you put these findings in archaeological context, a picture begins to emerge of Stone Age farmers migrating from south to north across Europe," said study researcher Pontus Skoglund, a graduate student at Uppsala University. "And the result of this migration, 5,000 years later, looks like a mixture of these two groups in the modern population."
This finding agrees with previous reports on the age of farming. Researchers think that agriculture emerged about 11,000 years ago in the Near East before reaching Europe about 5,000 years later (about 6,000 years ago in total). The new study supports this idea and suggests that farming was first introduced to southern Europe before it spread north about 1,000 years later.
This spread of agriculture also seems to have been a movement of people, and as a result introduced new genetic diversity into northern European communities.
"The results suggest that agriculture spread across Europe in concert with a migration of people," Skoglund said. "If farming had spread solely as a cultural process, we would not expect to see a farmer in the north with such genetic affinity to southern populations."
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