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SUBMITTER: Bentley RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3386065 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bentley R Alexander RA Bickle Penny P Fibiger Linda L Nowell Geoff M GM Dale Christopher W CW Hedges Robert E M RE Hamilton Julie J Wahl Joachim J Francken Michael M Grupe Gisela G Lenneis Eva E Teschler-Nicola Maria M Arbogast Rose-Marie RM Hofmann Daniela D Whittle Alasdair A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120529 24
Community differentiation is a fundamental topic of the social sciences, and its prehistoric origins in Europe are typically assumed to lie among the complex, densely populated societies that developed millennia after their Neolithic predecessors. Here we present the earliest, statistically significant evidence for such differentiation among the first farmers of Neolithic Europe. By using strontium isotopic data from more than 300 early Neolithic human skeletons, we find significantly less varia ...[more]