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Stone Age people buried over a span of 800 years at a mass grave in France mostly belonged to the same male lineage, DNA extracted from skeletons reveals.
Researchers discovered that people were buried there repeatedly between 3600 and 2800 B.C. and that 76% were male. Most of these men belonged to the same paternal line, known as G2, that is passed down between males via the Y chromosome. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.But this doesn't explain why several women were buried there, too. Pruvost proposed a few possible explanations for this.
"As it is often the case in prehistoric groups, women often left their ancestral community to live with their reproductive partner in what we call a patrilocal residence system," Pruvost added."We can for example imagine that some female individuals would preferentially return to be buried within their ancestral community."
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