Prehistoric pop culture:: Deciphering the DNA of the Bell Beaker Complex

• Autores: Kathryn Krakowka
• Localización: Current archaeology, ISSN 0011-3212, Nº. 338, 2018
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • More than 4,500 years ago, a hugely popular cultural phenomenon – today known as the Bell Beaker Complex – captured the prehistoric imagination, flourishing across much of Europe. Archaeologists are still deliberating over how this Complex, first identified in the 19th century, developed so quickly and effectively. Now the largest ancient DNA study to-date has shed revolutionary new light on the question, with surprising implications for our understanding of ancient populations – particularly that of Britain, which seems to have undergone an almost complete genetic turnover in just a few centuries. Kathryn Krakowka reports.