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🇮🇪 "The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles."
Serena Aneli and others, The Genetic Origin of Daunians and the Pan-Mediterranean Southern Italian Iron Age Context, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 39, Issue 2, February 2022, msac014, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac014