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Ancient DNA Reconstructs a Bronze Age Community in Calabria, Southern Italy
Northern slope of Monte Pollino. Credit: Fernando Santopaolo / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to reconstruct the genetic and social makeup of a Bronze Age community in Calabria, southern Italy, offering rare insight into how early societies in the region were organized about 3,500 years ago. The study, published in Communications Biology, was led by scientists from the Max Planck Harva…
Bronze Age DNA from Calabria reveals a distinct mountain community
An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (Leipzig, Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy) has reconstructed, for the first time, the genetic and social profile of a Protoapennine community that lived in northwestern Calabria about 3,500 years ago.
For the first time a scientific team has succeeded in reconstructing the complete genetic and social profile of a protoapeninic community that inhabited northwest Calabria approximately 3,500 years ago. The results, obtained from the analysis of ancient DNA extracted from human remains located in the cave of Grotta della Monaca, provide a vision without [...]
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