image: Burials provide not only important insights into social and ritual life of prehistoric populations, but also biological information that can be used to reconstruct past population movements. A burial site of the Bell Beaker culture with enclosures of stone. Rothenschirmbach, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 11 Oct., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Guido Brandt at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Mainz, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Ancient DNA Reveals Key Stages in the Formation of Central European Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt]