Bronze Age Southern Italy Community Revealed Through Archaeogenetics
TL;DR
The study reconstructs the demography and social structure of a Middle Bronze Age community from Calabria, Southern Italy, revealing genetic continuity with Mediterranean populations, evidence of kinship and inbreeding, including a rare case of parent-offspring mating, and highlighting complex migration and interaction patterns in prehistoric Italy.
Topics:sciencearchaeology-and-genetics#archaeology-and-genetics#bronze-age#demography#inbreeding#palaeogenetics#southern-italy
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