Geodatabase for archaeogenetics: ancient peoples and family lines ...

• Main Author: Leasure, Maria del Carmen author
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) 2021
• Subjects: Geographic Information Science and Technology degree program; Master of Science degree; College of Letters, Arts and Sciences school; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-ouc15607944; https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1SFIY4LU

From its early beginnings from the parent genus Homo in Africa, the species Homo sapiens spread across the globe to every continent except Antarctica, long before the advent of large seafaring vessels or even the wheel. The dispersion of the first Homo sapiens occurred when other early human species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, were still in Europe and parts of Asia, and land features and climates were very different from northern and eastern Africa. As early modern humans encountered these new environments and possibly other, earlier peoples over centuries of migration, adaptations occurred, and new cultures arose. These migrations are of great interest to several disciplines, including physical anthropology, archaeology, and genetics. A global geodatabase as a repository of spatial and genetic data to facilitate Spatio-temporal models of models and various data visualizations would serve all these disciplines. Such a geodatabase also can incorporate other related data for investigation, such as ...