Goyet

Goyet is a hamlet of the municipality Gesves in Belgium.[1]

It is famous for Goyet Caves, with glacial remnants of Neandertals, Homo sapiens and canid.[2]

In 2016, two ancient hunter-gatherers that were excavated at Goyet were found to carry the M mtDNA haplogroup. The Late Pleistocene specimens were dated to 34,000 and 35,000 years ago.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Bienvenue à Gesves !". gesves.com portal (in French). Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Grottes de Goyet". la commune de Gesves (in French). Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Cosimo Posth; Gabriel Renaud; Alissa Mittnik; Dorothée G. Drucker; Hélène Rougier; Christophe Cupillard; Frédérique Valentin; Corinne Thevenet; Anja Furtwängler; Christoph Wißing; Michael Francken; Maria Malina; Michael Bolus; Martina Lari; Elena Gigli; Giulia Capecchi; Isabelle Crevecoeur; Cédric Beauval; Damien Flas; Mietje Germonpré; Johannes van der Plicht; Richard Cottiaux; Bernard Gély; Annamaria Ronchitelli; Kurt Wehrberger; Dan Grigorescu; Jiří Svoboda; Patrick Semal; David Caramelli; Hervé Bocherens; Katerina Harvati; Nicholas J. Conard; Wolfgang Haak; Adam Powell (March 21, 2016). "Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe". Current Biology. 26: 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037. PMID 26853362. Retrieved 6 June 2016.

Coordinates: 50°26′48″N 5°00′32″E / 50.44669°N 5.00888°E / 50.44669; 5.00888


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