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© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled its expansion are a matter of long-standing debate, and there is support for both cultural diffusion and migration having a role in this process. Here we present genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 226 individuals associated with Beaker-complex artefacts. We detected limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and thus exclude migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, migration had a key role in the further dissemination of the Beaker complex. We document this phenomenon most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker complex introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry and was associated with the replacement of approximately 90% of Britain's gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe over the previous centuries.
Author(s): Olalde I, Brace S, Allentoft ME, Armit I, Kristiansen K, Booth T, Rohland N, Mallick S, Szecsenyi-Nagy A, Mittnik A, Altena E, Lipson M, Lazaridis I, Harper TK, Patterson N, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Diekmann Y, Faltyskova Z, Fernandes D, Ferry M, Harney E, De Knijff P, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Stewardson K, Barclay A, Alt KW, Liesau C, Rios P, Blasco C, Miguel JV, Garcia RM, Fernandez AA, Banffy E, Bernabo-Brea M, Billoin D, Bonsall C, Bonsall L, Allen T, Buster L, Carver S, Navarro LC, Craig OE, Cook GT, Cunliffe B, Denaire A, Dinwiddy KE, Dodwell N, Ernee M, Evans C, Kucharik M, Farre JF, Fowler C, Gazenbeek M, Pena RG, Haber-Uriarte M, Haduch E, Hey G, Jowett N, Knowles T, Massy K, Pfrengle S, Lefranc P, Lemercier O, Lefebvre A, Martinez CH, Olmo VG, Ramirez AB, Maurandi JL, Majo T, McKinley JI, McSweeney K, Mende BG, Mod A, Kulcsar G, Kiss V, Czene A, Patay R, Endrodi A, Kohler K, Hajdu T, Szeniczey T, Dani J, Bernert Z, Hoole M, Cheronet O, Keating D, Veleminsky P, Dobe M, Candilio F, Brown F, Fernandez RF, Herrero-Corral A-M, Tusa S, Carnieri E, Lentini L, Valenti A, Zanini A, Waddington C, Delibes G, Guerra-Doce E, Neil B, Brittain M, Luke M, Mortimer R, Desideri J, Besse M, Brucken G, Furmanek M, Hauszko A, Mackiewicz M, Rapinski A, Leach S, Soriano I, Lillios KT, Cardoso JL, Pearson MP, Wodarczak P, Price TD, Prieto P, Rey P-J, Risch R, Guerra MAR, Schmitt A, Serralongue J, Silva AM, Smrcka V, Vergnaud L, Zilhao J, Caramelli D, Higham T, Thomas MG, Kennett DJ, Fokkens H, Heyd V, Sheridan A, Sjogren K-G, Stockhammer PW, Krause J, Pinhasi R, Haak W, Barnes I, Lalueza-Fox C, Reich D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Nature
Year: 2018
Volume: 555
Issue: 7695
Pages: 190-196
Print publication date: 08/03/2018
Online publication date: 21/02/2018
Acceptance date: 04/01/2018
Date deposited: 27/03/2018
ISSN (print): 0028-0836
ISSN (electronic): 1476-4687
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25738
DOI: 10.1038/nature25738
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