TITLE:
Were the First Europeans Pale or Dark Skinned?
AUTHORS:
Clyde Winters
KEYWORDS:
Haplogroup, Neanderthal, Phenotype, Skeletal, Mousterian, mtDNA, SLC24A5
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.4 No.3,
August
14,
2014
ABSTRACT: 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.