The Bull from the Sea is a fictional interpretation of life in ancient Greece as it might have been experienced by the legendary Greek hero Theseus. While the novel focuses on a mythical figure, Renaultâs portrait of the society in which he is supposed to have lived is based on extensive scholarly research into the Mycenaean civilization that actually existed in Greece between about 1500 and 1100 b.c.
Your direct paternal lineage is the line that follows your fatherâs paternal ancestry. This line consists entirely of men. Y-DNA follows the direct paternal line. Your Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) can trace your father, his father, his fatherâs father, and so forth. It offers a clear path from you to a known, or likely, direct paternal ancestor. Your Y-DNA may help you find genetic cousins along your direct paternal line.
A Principal Components Plot showing the affinity of the Guanches to modern reference populations from Europe, North African, and the Near and Middle East. Credit: Linus Girdland-Flink Importantly, the new study reveals that the Guanches carried a mixture of genetic ancestry. Professor Anders GÃ¶therstrÃ¶m, co-author and director of the ancient DNA laboratory at Stockholm University, explains these findings: Our analyses show that a small portion of the genetic ancestry of the Guanches was derived from populations most closely related to European Stone Age farmers.