Goyet

Goyet is a hamlet of the municipality Gesves in Belgium.[1]

It is famous for its caves with glacial remants of Neandertals, Homo sapiens and canid.[2]

In 2016, two ancient hunter-gatherers that were excavated at Goyet were found to carry the M mtDNA haplogroup. The Late Pleistocene specimens were dated to 34,000 and 35,000 years ago.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Bienvenue à Gesves !". gesves.com portal (in French). Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Grottes de Goyet". la commune de Gesves (in French). Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Cosimo Posth, Gabriel Renaud, Alissa Mittnik, Dorothée G. Drucker, Hélène Rougier, Christophe Cupillard, Frédérique Valentin, Corinne Thevenet, Anja Furtwängler, Christoph Wißing, Michael Francken, Maria Malina, Michael Bolus, Martina Lari, Elena Gigli, Giulia Capecchi, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Cédric Beauval, Damien Flas, Mietje Germonpré, Johannes van der Plicht, Richard Cottiaux, Bernard Gély, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Kurt Wehrberger, Dan Grigorescu, Jiří Svoboda, Patrick Semal, David Caramelli, Hervé Bocherens, Katerina Harvati, Nicholas J. Conard, Wolfgang Haak, Adam Powell (March 21, 2016). "Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe". Current Biology. 26: 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037. Retrieved 6 June 2016.

Coordinates: 50°26′48″N 5°00′32″E / 50.44669°N 5.00888°E / 50.44669; 5.00888

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