Paula gonzalez

06/20/2025

From my hands to the soil, and from the soil to your table, every harvest is a labor of love. 🌿😍

06/11/2025

06/11/2025

Eli Esparza y El Pichón ❤️
Montse Hernández y Luis Caro👍
Todos 🥰

06/11/2025

7,000 years old—and their DNA doesn’t match any modern human population. In 2008, archaeologists uncovered 15 skeletons—including two remarkably preserved, naturally mummified women—in the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya. The region, once part of the lush “Green Sahara,” was rich with lakes, vegetation, and early human activity.

When researchers from Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Milan analyzed the remains, they expected genetic traces linking these pastoralists to known sub-Saharan, North African, or Near Eastern groups. Instead, the DNA of the two women, extracted from their petrous bones, revealed an entirely distinct human lineage—one that likely split off from sub-Saharan populations over 50,000 years ago and remained genetically isolated for millennia.

This stunning discovery, published in Nature in 2023, challenges the long-held assumption that the Green Sahara acted as a wide-open migration corridor. Instead, it points to deep regional continuity, with isolated groups adopting technologies—like animal herding—through cultural contact rather than large-scale population movements.