Indonesians To Midieval Africa
Monday, October 22, 2012 21:00
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Indonesians in Medieval AfricaOctober 22, 2012Posted by Beachcombing in : Medieval , trackback
Despite all the excitement about the use of DNA in history, those elusive strands have so far proved surprisingly unhelpful in our text books. The problem is that populations with similar DNA live close to each other and that it is next to impossible to give a chronological breakdown of when a given locality changes its DNA without finding bodies from every generation and comparing them. Every so often though DNA crops up far from ‘home’. And these are the moments when DNA really makes a difference, sticking out like a neon church tower in a landscape of brick campanili.
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