European Prehistory Is Rewritten By Ancient DNA

Stunning diversity within ice age cultures is revealed by genes.

Europe had vast steppes with herds of grazing mammoth and other megafauna thirty thousand years ago, as well as what we consisted a startlingly homogeneous human society. The people who lived there, known as the Gravettians by archaeologists, either lived in caves or structures made of mammoth bones. They left their distinctive material culture in the f…