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SUBMITTER: Brandt G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4039305 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20131001 6155
The processes that shaped modern European mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation remain unclear. The initial peopling by Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers ~42,000 years ago and the immigration of Neolithic farmers into Europe ~8000 years ago appear to have played important roles but do not explain present-day mtDNA diversity. We generated mtDNA profiles of 364 individuals from prehistoric cultures in Central Europe to perform a chronological study, spanning the Early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age ( ...[more]