8,000 Years Ago, Humans Navigated Deep Into a Dark French Cave. The Question Is: How?
Our world is riddled with fascinating, perilous, but beautiful holes into the quiet depths of the crust.
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Our world is riddled with fascinating, perilous, but beautiful holes into the quiet depths of the crust.
Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1–4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution5–7. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet (13C and 15N content), mobility (87Sr/86Sr ratio) and vegetation cover (pollen). We observe that Dan...