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In 2015, a widespread group of geneticists (Mathieson et al. 2015) reported the first ancient DNA investigation of the full genome from 26 Anatolian skeletons, concluding that these belonged to a population that was the source of Europe’s first farmers . This is just a further puzzle piece in the narrative that Europe’s first farmers descended from immigrants from the Near East
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Vogl, G. (2019). Have Europeans Always Arrived from the Near East?. In: Adventure Diffusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04681-1_5
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