Demic vs. cultural diffusion and patrilineal Megalithic societies

Recent paper A dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society, by Cassidy et al. Nature (2020) 582:384–388. Interesting excerpts (emphasis mine): Neolithic Admixture We sampled remains from all of the major Irish Neolithic funerary traditions: court tombs, portal tombs, passage tombs, Linkardstown-type burials and natural sites. Within this dataset, the earliest Neolithic human remains from the … Continue reading Demic vs. cultural diffusion and patrilineal Megalithic societies