Tabula rasa or refugia? Using genetic data to assess the peopling of Arabia

0392013 - ARÚ 2014 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Rose, J. I. - Černý, Viktor - Bayoumi, R.
Tabula rasa or refugia? Using genetic data to assess the peopling of Arabia.
Arabian archaeology and epigraphy. Roč. 24, č. 1 (2013), s. 95-101. ISSN 0905-7196
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-37998S
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : archaeogenetics * mitochondrial DNA * lactase persistence * Late Palaeolithic * Arabian demographics * refugia
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

This article summarizes the recent studies of mitochondrial DNA and lactase persistence of South Arabian populations made on the background of current archaeological research. Different scenarios for peopling of the Peninsula over the course of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene are discussed. We show that both genetic and archaeological evidence supports the existence of local Arabian refugia where ancestral populations resided during the Last Glacial Maximum.
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