Been hinted at by material culture before, now early trans-Mediterranean #SeaVoyaging 
is backed by #aDNA 
, showing that #Neoltihic populations living in eastern #Maghreb about 8,000 years ago were descended, in part, from European hunter-gatherers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00764-2 via @nature
www.nature.comAncient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to AfricaRoughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.