Ancient DNA from Neolithic Sweden

Feb 22, 2013
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A new paper in solidifies the case for migration as the cause for the diffusion of agriculture in Europe. Discontinuity between early Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic foragers in Central Europe had provided strong hints about this discontinuity, and these were confirmed by other ancient European DNA, e.g., from Treilles, or the Tyrolean Iceman. The case now appears irrefutable, that people ideas were involved in the spread farming to the northern fringes of Europe.

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