Ancient DNA in the Cantabrian fringe populations: A mtDNA study from Prehistory to Late Antiquity

Quaternary International

Volumn 364, Issue , 2015, Pages 306-311

  de la Rua, Concepción ^a   Izagirre, Neskuts ^a   Alonso, Santos ^a   Hervella, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ancient populations; Farmers; Hunter gatherers; Post Neolithic; Western Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DNA; HOMINID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; MESOLITHIC; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEOLITHIC; PALEOLITHIC; PALEONTOLOGY;

BASQUE COUNTRY [SPAIN]; CANTABRIA; NAVARRA; SPAIN;

EID: 84926052549     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.035     Document Type: Article

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