Breaking News: Europeans are Descendants of "Fourth Tribe"

Modern Europeans are the genetic descendants of a recently discovered "fourth tribe", researchers have confirmed.

It was thought that Europeans are a mix of three distant populations: hunters; Middle Eastern farmers and easterners who arrived during the Bronze Age.

But Nature Communications has revealed that genetic material retrieved from a skeleton in the Caucasus points towards a fourth population which has contributed to the European gene pool. 

Genomes harvested from burial sites thanks to scientific advances has meant that more data about ancient humans can be collected - altering our conception of our genetic legacy. 

The 10,000 year old Georgian skeleton, from which the data was collected

Of the three tribes previously thought to have been the exclusive ancestors of modern Europeans, the hunter-gatherers were the first to arrive in Europe before the Ice Age.

The migration of Middle Easterners 33,000 years hence shifted the genetic paradigm and introduced agriculture to Europe. 4,000 years later the Yamnaya - a herder people whose genetic contribution is concentrated most voluminously in the modern Norwegian population - entered Europe from the Steppes.

This groundbreaking discovery means researchers are likely to be puzzling over where the "fourth tribe" fits into the genetic story of Europe for quite some time yet.

10 Facts about extinctions!

1. The phrase “dead as the dodo” was first recorded in 1904, though the dodo went extinct in the 1660s.

2. “Extinct as the dodo,” dates back to 1870; “dead as a doornail” was used earlier.

3. There have been five known mass extinctions on Earth, each of which killed off at least half the species alive at the time.

 

4. The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction around 65 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs.  Click here to read more

5. The woolly mammoth, giant kangaroo and giant sloth died out between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago.

6. The Glyptodon, an armadillo the size of a car, also became extinct about 10,000 years ago.

 

7. In 1883 the quagga became extinct. In 1984, it became the first extinct animal to have its DNA sequenced.

 

 8. The Californian state flag features the last known captive Californian grizzly bear. The bear, named Monarch, died in 1911. The species became extinct in 1924.

9. The last passenger pigeon died in 1914. She was named Martha, after George Washington’s wife.

10. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that 10,000 species or sub-species go extinct every year.

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Today, we launch our travel insurance products for archaeologists!

Today, we launch our travel insurance products for archaeologists! 

Many travel products will not cover you for excavation and survey work while abroad – you will often find that ‘manual labour’ is excluded from cover – and this would include archaeological work.

We have teamed up with “nowicantravel” to provide cover for “manual labour” as standard.

 

 Whether you are off on a 12 month backpacking trip and join an excavation for a couple of weeks in Peru or you’re off to France for a 2 week survey – you will be covered.

For single trips, cover can be bought by the day – going as low as £4.22 for a 2 day trip to Europe.

We also have a ‘cruise’ travel insurance product as well as a skiing policy.

 

Because of some of the work we do with the Disabled Students Association, we also provide cover for individuals who may normally find it difficult to get travel insurance – whether because of pre-existing medical conditions or age, we should be able to get you insured.

Finally, we can also offer group discounts on annual and single trip policies.

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