Human paleogenetics of Europe - The known knowns and the known unknowns

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 73-92

  Brandt, Guido ^a   Szécsényi Nagy, Anna ^a,b   Roth, Christina ^a   Alt, Kurt Werner ^c,d,e   Haak, Wolfgang ^f  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony Anhalt and State Heritage Museum   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e Austria   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Archaeology; Mesolithic; Neolithic; Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DNA; MESOLITHIC; MITOCHONDRION; NEOLITHIC; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION GENETICS;

EUROPE;

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; PALEONTOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 84921656314     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.017     Document Type: Article

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