Fu’s analysis indicated that most of their ancestry derived from the same sublineage of European hunter-gatherers as the thirty-seven-thousand-year-old individual from far eastern Europe, and that they then spread west, displacing the sublineage associated with Aurignacian tools and represented in the thirty-five-thousand-year-old Belgian individual. The changes in artifact styles associated with the rise of the Gravettian culture were thus driven by the spread of new people.
