Population history in third-millennium-BC Europe: assessing the contribution of genetics

World Archaeology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 714-728

  Vander Linden, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aDNA; Bell Beaker; Corded Ware; demography; Yamnaya

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980410107     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2016.1209124     Document Type: Note

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