The relentless rise of migration in Europe over last 10,000 years
October 30, 2017
The new method, published today in PNAS, allows, for the first time, to directly quantify changes in prehistoric migration rates using ancient genetic data over the last 30,000 years.
The researchers found that migration has been on the rise since the beginning of the Holocene (the unusually warm and stable climatic period we have been in for the last approximately 11,000 years). Interestingly, this rise in mobility has not been gradual but instead has occurred in at least three distinct pulses (see figure).
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-relentless-migration-europe-years.html#jCp
