Spencer Wells feels that, “the ice age provides a key to the mystery of European genetic patterns” (Wells 80). Although many people of haplogroup H migrated to India and Central Asia when the ice sheets, from the ice age, melted many expanded to repopulate northern Europe. The climate was said to be significantly cooler and wetter due to the ice age, unlike the tropical weather in the Mediterranean. However, as the temperature began to slowly rise 10,000 years ago the climate changed from wet to dry. Weather impacts every aspect of the world including ancient haplogroups, such as haplogroup …show more content…
The people that had retreated to Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Balkans had a more varietal diet and relied on a hunter-gatherer type lifestyle. This half of the haplogroup had a diet of a lot of fish, lamb, and such easy vegetables as beans and several greens. On the other hand, stuck during the ice age the other half of haplogroup H had a very limited diet due to the ice sheets covering the tundra. Planting anything would be useless, because the ground was frozen and lifeless. If anything haplogroup H once and a while gathered any berries left behind from old plants and also killed any animal that crossed their path (via