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I'd think bones from a couple hundred or thousand or ten-thousand years ago would provide a okay trail.
by thrownv7032g 2y ago
I'd think bones from a couple hundred or thousand or ten-thousand years ago would provide a okay trail.
- runarberg 2y agoI don’t think the ancestry tests compare the DNA with archeological finds. If they did I wouldn’t trust it given the relatively small sample size of archeological finds with intact DNA.
- setopt 2y agoThe usual tests certainly don’t. But some scientific studies do: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15694 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15694
- runarberg 2y agoI thought those were done to investigate migratory patterns, movements, and inter-connectivity of historic populations, not to establish ancestral lineage of living population, and certainly not to assign a geographical region to existing ethnic groups.