Oldest Human Genome from Southern Spain

Pedro Cantalejo

A new study reports on genomic data from a 23,000-year-old individual who lived in what was probably the warmest place of Europe at the peak of the last Ice Age. The oldest human genome recovered from the southern tip of Spain adds an important piece of the puzzle to the genetic history of Europe.

Publication: Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, et al., A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-01987-0

Original Story Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology