In archaeogenetics, western hunter-gatherer is a distinct ancestral component of modern Europeans, representing descent from a population of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers present across much of Western
The transition from Magdalenian Goyet ancestry (green , Goyet Q2) to Western Hunter Gatherer (WHG) Villabruna ancestry (orange ) in European sites, according to timeline and climate evolution.
Cheddar Man, found in Great Britain, had a genotype similar to other western hunter-gatherers.
The rock shelter where the skeleton of the Loschbour man (c. 8,000 BP) was found
A simplified model for the demographic history of Europeans during the Neolithic period and the Neolithic Revolution which introduced agriculture.
In archaeogenetics, eastern hunter-gatherers, sometimes called east European hunter-gatherers or eastern European hunter-gatherers, are a distinct ancestral component which represents the Mesolithic h
Western hunter-gatherer
…ago, prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. WHGs constituted one of the main genetic groups in the postglacial period of early Holocene Europe, along with eastern hunter-gatherers (EHG) in Eastern Europe. The border between WHGs and EHGs ran roughly from the lower Danube, northward along the western forests of the Dnieper towards…
Reconstruction of burial No. 132 of the Oleneostrovsky burial ground (Yuzhni Oleny island, Lake Onega). Exhibit of the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia.
Artifacts and reconstruction of Eastern Hunter-Gatherers from Yuzhny Oleny island by Gerasimov.