{"id":102396,"date":"2020-02-15T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/7000-year-old-dna-found-in-artsakh-cave-matches-genes-of-modern-armenians"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T00:03:51","slug":"7000-year-old-dna-found-in-artsakh-cave-matches-genes-of-modern-armenians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/7000-year-old-dna-found-in-artsakh-cave-matches-genes-of-modern-armenians","title":{"rendered":"7000 Year Old DNA Found in Artsakh Cave Matches Genes of Modern Armenians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/7000-year-old-dna-found-in-artsakh-cave-matches-genes-of-modern-armenians.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AZOKH, Nagorno-Karabakh (People of Ar)\u2014Scholars from Britain, US, Denmark and Armenia led by Professor Levon Yepiskoposyan have been examining prehistoric caves near the village of Azokh in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and found unique artifacts from different periods, among them a tooth from a human who lived 7000 years ago. Due to the cave\u2019s climate DNA was preserved inside the tooth and was send to Copenhagen University\u2019s genetics department (in Denmark) for examination. The results of this inquiry have revealed that the genetic makeup of the tooth belonging to an individual 7000 years ago perfectly matches with the genetic makeup of modern Armenians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the conclusion we\u2019ve reached after numerous excavations carried out on the territory of Karabakh, where we examined more than a dozen caves, among them the cave of Azokh and Alexan Uzes,\u201d Yepiskoposyan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AZOKH, Nagorno-Karabakh (People of Ar)\u2014Scholars from Britain, US, Denmark and Armenia led by Professor Levon Yepiskoposyan have been examining prehistoric caves near the village of Azokh in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and found unique artifacts from different periods, among them a tooth from a human who lived 7000 years ago. Due to the cave\u2019s climate DNA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102780,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102396\/revisions\/102780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}