Boy have I missed a lot this month.

What with half term, me being sick and then the girl having an ear infection I haven’t had time to study lately. I’ve missed all the good bits and peices on the western desert DNA, latest study of Guanche DNA from Las Palma.

I have been doing some thinking into Afro Asaitic while I’ve been sunk in my slump. Like how impossible Ehret’s (and others) ancient ages are for it are. The Neolithic farmers had to have a language, and it’s expansion (using Bantu as a model) matches the spread of the neolithic Y chromosomes into central Africa. Observing this, and I can buy that early Indo European languages come from the same area as Semitic, and Dravidian too. Much as I shy away from the concept of Nostratic, I can see how some ancient  langauge from Turkey Iran could have spread out to form these three groups.

I’m having a fun time with the Afronauts on youtube. Very annoyed at the DNA information on Egyptians being made easily available to the world at large. Always calling Egyptians theiving Arabs is a bit hard when they’ve less Arabian Y chromsomes than most East African tribes and more African Y chromosomes than Cameroon. So most of them are reduced to sending the standard abuse package with zero fact content. I’d still like to know how come Africans invented agriculture with entirely Turkish/Iranian crops and animals. I’ve not had a good answer for that one either. LOL.