Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00228745%3A_____%2F22%3AN0000049" target="_blank" >RIV/00228745:_____/22:N0000049 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age
Original language description
Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early European farmers (EEF) than people of the Early Bronze Age1 . To understand this, here we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and western and central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000 and 875 bc, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of people of England and Wales from the Iron Age, thereby creating a plausible vector for the spread of early Celtic languages into Britain. These patterns are part of a broader trend of EEF ancestry becoming more similar across central and western Europe in the Middle to the Late Bronze Age, coincident with archaeological evidence of intensified cultural Exchange 2–6. There was comparatively less gene flow from continental Europe during the Iron Age, and the independent genetic trajectory in Britain is also reflected in the rise of the allele conferring lactase persistence to approximately 50% by this time compared to approximately 7% in central Europe where it rose rapidly in frequency only a millennium later. This suggests that dairy products were used in qualitatively different ways in Britain and in central Europe over this period
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature
ISSN
1476-4687
e-ISSN
0028-0836
Volume of the periodical
601
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2022
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
588-594
UT code for WoS article
000744418000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85121633354