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"The most complete story of human history in Europe": unknown lineage of ice age human discovered in New study
"The most complete story of human history in Europe": unknown lineage of ice age human discovered in New study Around 33,000 years ago, Europe's climate cooled and a new human culture known as the Gravettians, known for hunting woolly mammoths with spears and crafting Venus figurines, spread across the continent. But in a recent study, scientists analyzed Gravettian DNA from across Europe and came to the startling realization that they were looking at two distinct genetic populations. One population, named the Fournol, survived the Ice Age by settling in the warm Iberian Peninsula, while the other, the Vestonice, perished in the more frigid Italy, and was eventually replaced when a new population known as the Villabruna expanded into Europe from the Balkans. Though these groups were genetically distinct, there is evidence that they interacted and shared tools and culture with one another. In fact, 30,000-year-old remains discovered in Belgium show a mix of Fournol and