Mota (formerly Sugarloaf Island) is an island in the Banks group of northern Vanuatu. Its population – today about 700 people [2] – speak the Mota language, which Christian missionaries of the Anglican Church used as a lingua franca in parts of Melanesia. The name Mota is an adaptation of the local name M̄ota [ŋ͡mʷota].

2015年10月8日 · Radiocarbon dating revealed that the bone was 4,500 years old. That meant Mota (as the researchers called him) lived before Eurasians returned to the African continent. Consistent with that...

2020年1月22日 · The ancient Shum Laka people have a substantial amount of Ghost Modern ancestry. So does the ancient Mota man from Ethiopia. But ancient remains from Morocco and South Africa had none. Today some people in Sierra Leone have a tiny trace of Ghost Modern ancestry, the researchers found.

2015年10月8日 · A paper published online this week in Science reveals the first prehistoric genome from Africa: that of Mota, a hunter-gatherer man who lived 4500 years ago in the highlands of Ethiopia. Named for the cave that held the remains, the Mota genome "is an impressive feat," says Hodgson, who was not involved in the work.

2015年10月9日 · Archaeologists from the University of South Florida recovered the 4,500-year-old skeleton, which they have dubbed Mota, from a cave in the highlands of Ethiopia, the New York Times reports. Then...

2015年10月8日 · Using Mota man's genes as the best African baseline to date, the international team showed that modern African populations thought to be basically unmixed actually have a significant amount of...

2015年10月8日 · Andrea Manica and Marcos Gallego Llorente of the University of Cambridge found that the man, who has been dubbed “Mota,” had brown eyes, dark skin, and three gene variants associated with living...

2016年1月29日 · Finding that much of Africa has Eurasian ancestry was mistaken. This rocky area in Mota cave held bones that yielded the first ancient African genome. Credit: Kathryn …

2015年10月8日 · Here, we present a 12.5× coverage ancient genome of an Ethiopian male (“Mota”) who lived approximately 4500 years ago. We use this genome to demonstrate that the Eurasian backflow into Africa came from a population closely related to Early Neolithic farmers, who had colonized Europe 4000 years earlier.

Mota is an island in the Banks group of northern Vanuatu. Its population – today about 700 people – speak the Mota language, which Christian missionaries of the...