Goyet (place) explained

Goyet is a hamlet of the municipality Gesves, Wallonia, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.[1]

It is famous for Goyet Caves, with glacial remnants of Neandertals, Homo sapiens and canid.[2]

In 2016, two ancient hunter-gatherers that were excavated at Goyet were found to carry the M mtDNA haplogroup. The Late Pleistocene specimens were dated to 34,000 and 35,000 years ago.[3]

References

50.4467°N 5.0089°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bienvenue à Gesves ! . gesves.com portal . French . 6 February 2016.
  2. Web site: Grottes de Goyet . la commune de Gesves. French . 6 February 2016.
  3. Cosimo Posth . Gabriel Renaud . Alissa Mittnik . Dorothée G. Drucker . Hélène Rougier . Christophe Cupillard . Frédérique Valentin . Corinne Thevenet . Anja Furtwängler . Christoph Wißing . Michael Francken . Maria Malina . Michael Bolus . Martina Lari . Elena Gigli . Giulia Capecchi . Isabelle Crevecoeur . Cédric Beauval . Damien Flas . Mietje Germonpré . Johannes van der Plicht . Richard Cottiaux . Bernard Gély . Annamaria Ronchitelli . Kurt Wehrberger . Dan Grigorescu . Jiří Svoboda . Patrick Semal . David Caramelli . Hervé Bocherens . Katerina Harvati . Nicholas J. Conard . Wolfgang Haak . Adam Powell . Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe. Current Biology. March 21, 2016. 26. 6 . 827–833. 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037. 26853362. 2440/114930 . free .

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