Map Showing Location of Roopkund Lake in the Himalayas (IMAGE)
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Map showing location of Roopkund Lake in the Himalayas, with the inset showing the route of the Nanda Devi Raj Jat pilgrimage. The lake was thought to be the site of an ancient catastrophic event that left several hundred people dead, but the first ancient whole genome data from India shows that diverse groups of people died at the lake in multiple events approximately 1000 years apart.
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modified from Harney et al., Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India, Nature communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11357-9
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