Ancient African cattle first domesticated in Middle East

The genetic history of 134 cattle breeds from around the world has been completed by a group of researchers. In the process of completing this history, they found that ancient domesticated African cattle originated in the 'Fertile Crescent,' a region that covered modern day Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Israel.

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Call it humanity's unexpected U-turn. One of the biggest events in the history of our species is the exodus out of Africa some 65,000 years ago, the start of Homo sapiens' long march across the world.

Now a study of southern African genes shows that, unexpectedly, another migration took western Eurasian DNA back to the very southern tip of the continent 3000 years ago.

We know that southern Europeans can trace their ancestry to the Middle East.

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Meanwhile in Eastern and Southern Africa, Bantu-speakers adopted livestock husbandry from other peoples they encountered

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Now a study of southern African genes shows that, unexpectedly,
another migration took western Eurasian DNA back
to the very southern tip of the continent 3000 years ago.

http://www.newscientist.com/article...n-to-africa-revealed-in-dna.html#.U3D_iNiKDIX

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1 = 2000–1500 BC origin
2 = ca.1500 BC first migrations
2.a = Eastern Bantu, 2.b = Western Bantu
3 = 1000–500 BC Urewe nucleus of Eastern Bantu
4–7 = southward advance
9 = 500 BC–0 Congo nucleus
10 = 0–1000 AD last phase[12][13][14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion

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Genetic studies have identified substantial non-African admixture in the Horn of Africa (HOA). In the most recent genomic studies, this non-African ancestry has been attributed to admixture with Middle Eastern populations during the last few thousand years.
However, mitochondrial and Y chromosome data are suggestive of earlier episodes of admixture.

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Garyvdh said:

Don't show those migration pics to members of the EFF.... they are hell bent on claiming that they owned the land first!

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bicicleur said...

cattle arrived in Africa 6-8000 years ago, probably from Anatolia, along with haplo T and R1b-V88.
cattle couldn't reach Central Africa because of infection by the tse-tse.
probably due to some climate change, there was a corridor free of tse-tse in eastern Africa, and so cattle reached South-Africa 2000 years ago, before the arrival of Bantu.Sunday, December 07, 2014 11:47:00 am

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