Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

ABSTRACT: Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early European farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age¹. To understand this, here we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and western and central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000 and 875 BC, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of people of England and Wales from the Iron Age, thereby creating a plausible vector for the sp

SUBMITTER: Patterson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8889665 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature