Ancient DNA reveals how women helped transform prehistoric Europe

Alexandru Orian

The researchers analyzed genetic material from remains found at excavations across Belgium and the Netherlands. Credit: Monika Knul When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that everything we thought we knew about the peopling of Europe by modern humans was wrong. The story was simpler than anyone was expecting: Europe was settled in just three massive migrations from the east. First came the hunter-gatherers, more

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