Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🔴 **Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups**</p><p>“_We document an exception to this pattern in the wider Rhine-Meuse area in communities in the wetlands, riverine areas, and coastal areas of the western and central Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany, where we assembled genome-wide data for 109 people 8500-1700 BCE. Here, a distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry (∼50%) persisted up to three thousand years later than in continental European regions, reflecting limited incorporation of females of Early European Farmer ancestry into local communities._”</p><p>Olalde, I. et al. (2025) 'Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644985" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644</span><span class="invisible">985</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preprint</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genetics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Archaeodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeodons</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/archaeodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>archaeodons</span></a></span></p>