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Most European Men are Descended from just Three Bronze Age Warlords, New Study Reveals

Monday, May 25, 2015 23:57
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Bronze Age warriors on the lookout

The majority of European men are descended from just a handful of Bronze Age male ancestors, says a new genetic study in the journal Nature.

The presence of genetic material from just a few men in the Y chromosome sequence resulted from a population explosion several thousand years ago, researchers said. The team of scientists found that there was a huge increase in the population 2,000 to 4,000 years ago, in a band from Greece and the Balkans to the British Isles and Scandinavia.

Europe in the late bronze age of about 1100 BC.

Europe in the late bronze age of about 1100 BC. (Map by Xoil, Wikimedia Commons)

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