ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Roaming Ancestry – Landscapes of social and genetic relations in prehistory
Kinship systems and networks of contact and exchange in prehistoric societies could so far only be studied indirectly. Recent advances in archaeogenetics have enabled the retrieval of ancient genomic data with high success rates, which often allows the study of nearly all individuals from the same archaeological site, making intra-site studies become reality. Estimating degrees of biological relatedness and demonstrating biological unrelatedness can form a robust scaffold to reconstruct social and kin relations, which permit stable inferences on kinship structures and social organisation in prehistoric societies. Further analytical advances that estimate shared identity-by-descent between…
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