23-12-2021, 03:34 PM
(23-12-2021, 03:05 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That's what I was thinking as well. Even if a determination were conclusive (e.g. a DNA strain from a specific region in Europe), this still wouldn't allow us to eliminate much. It wouldn't even eliminate New World theories.My thinking would be much more ambitious, though I don't think unrealistic. I quite enjoy some of these finding your ancestry TV shows. I remember one where they were looking at the ancestry of Larry David, an American comedian, and Bernie Sanders, an American politician. They discovered that they both had a common stretch of DNA that demonstrated that they both had a common ancestor in recent history that neither were aware of(few generations ago).
The recent identification of the Golden State killer was done in the following way: they had a DNA sample of the killer's DNA, the killer's DNA was not in the national DNA database, a slightly sneaky detective sent the killer's DNA to one of those ancestry testing companies which will highlight known relatives, the detective then essentially triangulated from the known relatives to the actual killer. I would think this kind of approach could be used to triangulate on the Voynich author(s)'