Strangers in the ancestors' tombs: Beaker newcomers reused Neolithic monuments in Britain
A new 30-genome transect of southwestern England confirms the sharp Beaker-era turnover — and shows the genetically distinct newcomers burying their dead inside monuments built a millennium earlier by the people they replaced.
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