Extensive Farming in Estonia Started through a Sex-Biased Migration from the Steppe

Current Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2017, Pages 2185-2193.e6

  Saag, Lehti ^a,b   Varul, Liivi ^c   Scheib, Christiana Lyn ^d   Stenderup, Jesper ^e   Allentoft, Morten E ^e   Saag, Lauri ^b   Pagani, Luca ^b   Reidla, Maere ^a,b   Tambets, Kristiina ^b   Metspalu, Ene ^a,b   Kriiska, Aivar ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^e   Kivisild, Toomas ^a,b,d   Metspalu, Mait ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

aDNA; ancient DNA; Comb Ceramic culture; Corded Ware culture; farming; hunter gatherers; migration; Neolithic; population genetics; shotgun sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESTONIA; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MIGRATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGRICULTURE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, ANCIENT; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ESTONIA; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS;

EID: 85023634728     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.022     Document Type: Article

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