Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker cemeteries.

Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker cemeteries.

We present a high-resolution cross-disciplinary analysis of kinship structure and social institutions in two Late Copper Age Bell Beaker culture cemeteries of South Germany containing 24 and 18 burials, of which 34 provided genetic information. By combining archaeological, anthropological, genetic a...

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Main Authors: Karl-Göran Sjögren, Iñigo Olalde, Sophie Carver, Morten E Allentoft, Tim Knowles, Guus Kroonen, Alistair W G Pike, Peter Schröter, Keri A Brown, Kate Robson Brown, Richard J Harrison, Francois Bertemes, David Reich, Kristian Kristiansen, Volker Heyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241278

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