The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/47813059:19240/18:A0000196 RIV/67985912:_____/18:00493600 RIV/00023272:_____/18:10133921
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25738" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25738</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature25738" target="_blank" >10.1038/nature25738</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
Original language description
From around 2750 to 2500 BC, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 BC. The forces that propelled its expansion are a matter of long-standing debate, and there is support for both cultural diffusion and migration having a role in this process. Here we present genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 226 individuals associated with Beaker-complex artefacts. We detected limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and thus exclude migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, migration had a key role in the further dissemination of the Beaker complex. We document this phenomenon most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker complex introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry and was associated with the replacement of approximately 90% of Britain's gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe over the previous centuries.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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