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Congruent distribution of Neolithic painted pottery and ceramic figurines with Y-chromosome lineages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Roy King  and
Peter A. Underhill
Roy King
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305, USA. royking@stanford.edu
Peter A. Underhill
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-5120, USA. under@stanford.edu
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The authors propose a correlation between certain elements of Neolithic material culture — painted pottery and anthropomorphic figurines — and Y-chromosome haplotypes, suggesting a shared history of dispersal of human populations and cultural ideas.

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Y-chromosome haplotypesgenetic contoursNeolithic painted potteryceramic figurines

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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 293 , September 2002 , pp. 707 - 714
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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