Advances in Anthropology

Volume 4, Issue 3 (August 2014)

ISSN Print: 2163-9353   ISSN Online: 2163-9361

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Were the First Europeans Pale or Dark Skinned?

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DOI: 10.4236/aa.2014.43016    14,503 Downloads   25,683 Views  Citations
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This is an overview of the Out of Africa (OoA) settlement of Europe during the Aurignacian period. Klyosov claims that the first Europeans were fair (pale) skin, and Neanderthal who never lived in Africa. Archaeological evidence indicated that Neanderthals originated in Africa and between 139 kya and 125 kya the Neanderthals migrated back into Africa and spread from Morocco to East Africa. The archaeological, anthropological and genetic evidence indicated that the first Europeans were dark skin Sub-Saharan Africans who carried mtDNA haplogroup N and Y-chromosome C6 into Europe.

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Winters, C. (2014). Were the First Europeans Pale or Dark Skinned?. Advances in Anthropology, 4, 124-132. doi: 10.4236/aa.2014.43016.

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