DNA Testing results
Chowning Family,
Through extensive DNA testing we have proven that the Chowning name is French.
FTDNA did the testing and the National Geographic matched our DNA to Northern France.
It matched the Gravettian Culture. The NG is going all over the world collecting DNA samples. They have several grants and no names are kept in their huge data base.
Please: If your DNA does not match as posted on FTDNA, you are not a relative.
The Gravettian was an industry of the European Upper Palaeolithic. It is named after the type site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France. It dates from between 28,000 and 22,000 years ago and succeeded the Aurignacian.
The diagnostic artifact of the industry is a small pointed restruck blade with a blunt but straight back, known as a Noailles burin. Artistic achievements of the Gravettian cultural stage included the Venus figurines. The industry had counterparts across central Europe and into Russia.
A phase (c.28,000–23,000 ya) of the European Upper Paleolithic that is characterized by a stone-tool industry with small pointed blades used for big-game hunting (bison, horse, reindeer and mammoth). It is divided into two regional groups: the western Gravettian, mostly known from cave sites in France, and the eastern Gravettian, with open sites of specialized mammoth hunters on the plains of central Europe and Russia. Some early examples of cave art and the famous 'Venus' figurines were made by Gravettian artists.
Dee
More Replies:
-
Re: DNA Testing results
Mary Majesty 8/01/09
-
Re: DNA Testing results
Dee Chowning 8/01/09
-
Re: DNA Testing results
Mary Majesty 6/12/10
-
Re: DNA Testing results
Dee Chowning 6/12/10
-
Re: DNA Testing results
-
Re: DNA Testing results
-
Re: DNA Testing results
-
Re: DNA Testing results
Carol Myers 9/14/08
-
Re: DNA Testing results
Dee Chowning 9/14/08
-
Re: DNA Testing results