Ancient Burial and Skeleton from Sanaag !!

[EDsomali]

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

Potential for ancient DNA!

 

[BoltKing]

From the article:

Bone samples were collected for isotopic, DNA, and radiocarbon analyses, with no positive results, as the samples did not have any collagen left.

 

[Cognitive]

I am guessing some burials might contain foreigners? Had the extraction been viable, what results would people expect? I'm guessing one or two would be traders from the southern Arabian peninsula? Wonder if there'd be Greeks among the foreigners. We know they traded extensively with the Horn and Sudan (with the Meroetics, I think).
IIRC there were also records about Somalia during the Tang dynasty, but I guess it'd be borderline impossible to find an East Asian among those burials, lol. Probably only a handful of merchants and explorers got there using India as a hub.

 

[EDsomali]

From the article:

Pretty sure there are other ways to extract DNA than just using collagen. I might try to email the authors, even the Buur Heybe ones which were 22,000 years older managed 1 really bad quality DNA sample.

 

[Mount23]

How tall is this skeleton, looks like a Giant lol

 

[Dima&Damo]

The dome tells his a maaryoole