2021·Antiquity
The return of the Beaker Folk? Rethinking migration and population change in British prehistory
Armit I, Reich D.
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Abstract
Recent aDNA analysis has demonstrated that the centuries surrounding the arrival of the Beaker Complex in Britain witnessed a massive turnover in the genetic make-up of the population. Here we consider the archaeological implications of this finding, and propose two hypotheses - Beaker Colonisation and Steppe Drift - that might help us understand the underlying social processes, and propose directions for future research. Keywords: Beaker, migration, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, aDNA
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