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Thursday, 8 February 2024

Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia

After years of exploring cave systems and tafoni's on the island, we discovered quite some burial sites on the island. Questions popped-up: Who were these people? How old are the remains? Are these families/tribes? Where do the Soqotri people came from anyway? 

Finally some information got extracted from these remains, freshly published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, titled: 

Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia