NEW YORK – A team from the University of Bordeaux, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and elsewhere has described distinct local hunter-gatherer groups interacting with incoming farming populations during the Neolithic in different parts of France and Germany.
Such findings "highlight the complexity of the biological interactions during the Neolithic expansion by revealing major regional variations," senior and co-corresponding author Wolfgang Haak, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute, and his colleagues suggested.