The computer's date of 2,182 years ago for the origin of the tree fits reasonably well with the archaeological dates for the Yayoi culture, he reported Tuesday in The Proceedings of the Royal Society.
Then we use computer simulations and a large database of archaeological dates for the introduction of domestication to explore the evolution of these frequencies in Europe according to different demographic scenarios and selection intensities.
The recently revised archaeological dates for the Aterian industry of North Africa emphasize that the makers of this industry do not appear to have left any imprint in the maternal lineages of present-day North Africans.
We warmly acknowledge Ron Pinhasi for providing us with precious archaeological dates from his personal database, as well as Louis Chaix and Estella S. Poloni for stimulating discussions and Laurent Excoffier for providing the software abcEst.
The radiocarbon ages do not completely coincide with the archaeological dates of the individuals.
The age for another potential founder clade H1 (16260) was also estimated at 6.3 ± 2.9 kya, much older than the archaeological date [ 55].
In the case of possible pre-Columbian treponemal infection in skeletal material it is unavoidable to use radiocarbon dating for more precise dating than archaeological dating and dating by arm positions.
Additional to the archaeological dating the radiocarbon dating method was used in order to meet the standards for analysing putative pre-Columbian material [13] and to test and augment the results of the arm position chronology.
Thus, the radiocarbon dates and the archaeological dates are in substantial disagreement.
