🇮🇪 "The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles."

Cassidy, L.M. et al. (2015) 'Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(2), pp. 368–373. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518445113. #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Archaeology #Ireland #Irish #Europe #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons