Genomic transformation and social organization during the Copper Age–Bronze Age transition in southern Iberia

V Villalba-Mouco, C Oliart, C Rihuete-Herrada… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The emerging Bronze Age (BA) of southeastern Iberia saw marked social changes. Late
Copper Age (CA) settlements were abandoned in favor of hilltop sites, and collective graves …

Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia

V Villalba-Mouco, C Oliart, C Rihuete-Herrada… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic
transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary …

[HTML][HTML] The population genomics of archaeological transition in west Iberia: Investigation of ancient substructure using imputation and haplotype-based methods

R Martiniano, LM Cassidy, R Ó'Maoldúin… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We analyse new genomic data (0.05–2.95 x) from 14 ancient individuals from Portugal
distributed from the Middle Neolithic (4200–3500 BC) to the Middle Bronze Age (1740–1430 …

Cultural, demographic and environmental dynamics of the Copper and Early Bronze Age in Iberia (3300–1500 BC): towards an interregional multiproxy comparison at …

A Blanco-González, KT Lillios, JA López-Sáez… - Journal of World …, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents the first comprehensive pan-Iberian overview of one of the major
episodes of cultural change in later prehistoric Iberia, the Copper to Bronze Age transition (c …

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

I Olalde, S Mallick, N Patterson, N Rohland… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the
largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect …

Patterns of genetic differentiation and the footprints of historical migrations in the Iberian Peninsula

C Bycroft, C Fernandez-Rozadilla, C Ruiz-Ponte… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Iberian Peninsula is linguistically diverse and has a complex demographic
history, including a centuries-long period of Muslim rule. Here, we study the fine-scale …

Isotopic evidence for mobility at large-scale human aggregations in Copper Age Iberia: the mega-site of Marroquíes

MDZ Bonilla, J Beck, H Bocherens, P Díaz-del-Río - Antiquity, 2018 - cambridge.org
Settlements incorporating large-scale human aggregations are a well-documented but
poorly understood phenomenon across late prehistoric Europe. The authors' research …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula

T Saupe, F Montinaro, C Scaggion, N Carrara… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly
characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on …

Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker …

KG Sjögren, I Olalde, S Carver, ME Allentoft… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We present a high-resolution cross-disciplinary analysis of kinship structure and social
institutions in two Late Copper Age Bell Beaker culture cemeteries of South Germany …

Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age

M Chyleński, P Makarowicz, A Juras… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The demographic history of East-Central Europe after the Neolithic period remains poorly
explored, despite this region being on the confluence of various ecological zones and …