Bronze Age DNA from Calabria reveals a distinct mountain community

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An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (Leipzig, Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy) has reconstructed, for the first time, the genetic and social profile of a Protoapennine community that lived in northwestern Calabria about 3,500 years ago.