The agricultural transition in Sicily (van de Loosdrecht et al. 2020 preprint)

Over at bioRxiv at this LINK. Below is the abstract: Southern Italy is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean due to its central position. We present a genomic transect for 19 prehistoric Sicilians that covers the Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic period. We find that the Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (HGs) are a highly drifted sister lineage to

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