Women on the move. The DNA evidence for female mobility and exogamy in prehistory

Past Mobilities: Archaeological Approaches to Movement and Mobility

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 155-174

  Brown, Keri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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