Bronze Age women altered genetic landscape of Orkney, study finds (IMAGE)

University of Huddersfield

Bronze Age women altered genetic landscape of Orkney, study finds

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An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands. The research has been published by the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and is entitled ‘Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney’ by Katharina Dulias, George Foody, Pierre Justeau et al.

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