The return of the Beaker Folk? Rethinking migration and population change in British prehistory

Ian Armit, David Reich

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Abstract

Recent aDNA analysis has demonstrated that the centuries surrounding
the arrival of the Beaker Complex in Britain witnessed a massive
turnover in the genetic make-up of the population. Here we consider the
archaeological implications of this finding, and propose two hypotheses -
Beaker Colonisation and Steppe Drift - that might help us understand the
underlying social processes, and propose directions for future research.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1464-1477
Number of pages14
JournalAntiquity
Volume95
Issue number384
Early online date31 Aug 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

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