A study published in Nature revealed insights into the genetic legacy of ancient inhabitants of the Green Sahara. Researchers successfully sequenced the DNA of two 7,000‐year‐old naturally mummified individuals recovered from the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus Mountains. The study determined that these individuals belonged to an isolated North African human lineage that had vanished, with their genomic signature appearing only faintly in modern North Africans.
The analysis showed that the genetic makeup of the Takarkori individuals shared close links with that of 15,000‐year‐old hunter‐gatherers from the Taforalt cave in Morocco, associated with the Iberomaurusian culture. The findings suggested that a stable human population existed in…