Emerging genetic patterns of the european neolithic: Perspectives from a late neolithic bell beaker burial site in Germany

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 571-579

  Lee, Esther J ^a   Makarewicz, Cheryl ^a   Renneberg, Rebecca ^a   Harder, Melanie ^a   Krause Kyora, Ben ^a   Müller, Stephanie ^b   Ostritz, Sven ^c   Fehren Schmitz, Lars ^d   Schreiber, Stefan ^a   Müller, Johannes ^a   Von Wurmb Schwark, Nicole ^a   Nebel, Almut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Thuringian State Office for Archaeology and the Preservation of Historical Monuments   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; Neolithic Europe; population genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELL BEAKER COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDED WARE COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE POOL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MESOLITHIC; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NEOLITHIC; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SKELETON; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIETY;

EID: 85027920660     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22074     Document Type: Article

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