Genes, Genealogy
and the Migrations of Man
U3A course H37-2008
01 - Are we there yet? A road map to the human past
Introduction to genetic testing and basic genetics.
Summary [138Kb] | Course [798Kb]
02 - Set in stone: The long way round
The evolution of Homo sapiens and some of our hominid cousins.
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03 - The longest march of all: The human diaspora
The "Out of Africa" theory and first steps to populating the world.
Summary [96Kb] | Course [924kb]
04 - The Long Beach Road to Oz - The first people in Sahul
The long march from the Red Sea to Australia and New Guinea.
Summary [193Kb] | Course [400Kb]
05 - Ancient Shells and Gods of Clay: The Magical World of the Jomon
Among the first people in Asia, their cultural legacy lives on in modern Japan.
Summary [88Kb] | Course [1.08Mb]
06 - The Durée of the Cave Bear: The first people in Europe
The reconstruction and genetics of Homo neanderthalensis, the first humans in Europe. Did they interbreed with our ancestors or just die out?
Summary [172Kb] | Course [549Kb]
07 - Wise Men from the East: The First Homo sapiens in Europe
Modern H. sapiens arrived ~45 kya: the Aurignacian culture.
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08 - From Frigid to Freezing: The Last Glacial Maximum
As Europe froze in the Late Upper Palaeolithic our ancestors retreated to refugia in warmer climes.
Summary [312Kb] | Course [331Kb]
09 - Anime of the Ancestors: Art of the Late Pleistocene
Mobiliary and cave art of the Late Pleistocene.
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10 - Reversing the Diaspora: Human migrations during the LGM
As the Ice retreated, people spread out over the world once more.
Summary [416Kb] | Course [3.22Mb]
11- The False Spring: The Death and Resurrection of Grass
European Mesolithic migrations between the LGM and the Younger Dryas
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12 - A Green and Pleasant Land: Europe in the Neolithic
The introduction of agriculture, pottery and domestication of animals.
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13 - Back-tracking from Babel: Genetics and the Indo-European Languages
The spread of languages especially the Indo-European family.
Summary [36Kb] | Course [312Kb]
14 - The Nation which Never Was: Celts and the Making of a Modern Myth
The Celts in Europe and impact of the Roman Empire
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15 - Clouties on the Family Tree: Genetics take over where the paper-trail ends
Fleshing out the genetic facts and figures with history
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16 - The Ruin of Britain: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings
After the Romans came others but what genetic impact did they have?
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17 - Gilding the Lilies of the Fields: Sorting the Sheep from Native Goats
The role of myth, Arthurian and Saxon, in the making of Britain.
Summary [32Kb] | Course [1.09Mb]
18 - Mystery Men of Europe: Gypsies, Basques and Vanished Picts.
Who were these people and whatever happened to the Picts?
Summary [32Kb] | Course [1.05Mb]
Other important downloads:
Course schedule [PDF - 28Kb]
Laboratories and costs [PDF - 16Kb]
Online reading list [PDF - 24Kb]
Glossary [PDF - 136Kb]
A summary of the sequence of events [PDF - 84Kb]
Carbon 14 and real years [PDF - 12Kb]
Simplified Haplogroup Locale chart [PDF - 280Kb]
YDNA mtDNA Haplogrup Descripion [PDF- 36Kb]