2. M170 M89 M60 M91 M130 M96 M201 M168 M52 NEXT

3. yDNA Haplogroup I

4. 25,000 BC M89 M170 About 25,000 years ago the M170 (haplogroup I) mutation occurred on the Y chromosome of a M89 man in the Near East. Some of his male descendants then entered Europe along a southern route to become the founders of the Upper Paleolithic Gravettian culture, the people famous for the so-called “Venus” figurines. NEXT

5. During the Last Glacial Maximum (18 - 14,000 BC) men of haplogroup I become genetically isolated in the Balkans. As the glaciers began to melt this population radiated to the north and west. Today, haplogroup I occurs in high frequencies in Scandinavia and the Balkans, with smaller numbers elsewhere. The northern variety of haplogroup I seems to have been common in Viking populations that conquered much of western Europe between AD 800 and 1000, and …. NEXT

6. …the trail of these Viking genes may explain the prehistoric ancestry of several of the I-men in our CSUEB sample, whose historic European origins are known. Richard England Armando Spain Glenn Holland Tom Norway

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8. A kiosk presentation prepared for the exhibition March 2 to June 15, 2007

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