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The Neolithic transition in Europe: comparing broad scale genetic and local scale isotopic evidence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
Abstract
Genetic studies of modern populations are raising many interesting questions about how far the modern gene pool is owed to incoming populations during the agricultural revolution in Neolithic Europe. But, as the authors show, studies of isotopic data from cemeteries reveal a picture of increasing subtlety at local level. While early farmers may have been initially newcomers in the upper Rhine they may also have soon intermarried with contemporary hunter-gatherers in the uplands.
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