The Pan-European Impact of the Balkan Hunter-Gatherers
During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 26-19 thousand years ago (kya), Europe had three principal refugia not covered by ice: the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas1,2. While the Iberian and Italian refugia have been studied with ancient DNA3-7, the legacy of the Balkan refugium has remained a mystery due to a lack of genetic data 30-12 kya. We present genome-wide data from nine newly…
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