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Digging Deep Into Human Prehistory

An international team of researchers combined archaeological, genetic and stable isotope data to trace four millennia of human prehistory in Iberia. Pictured here is one of the sites studied - the El Portalón cave in the Sierra de Atapuerca (northern Spain).

Credit: Eneko Iriarte, Universidad de Burgos, Spain.

Reference. C Valdiosera et al., “Four millennia of Iberian biomolecular prehistory illustrate the impact of prehistoric migrations at the far end of Eurasia”, PNAS [Epub ahead of print] (2018).

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