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Next-generation sequencing and exacting DBA sampling of 6,000-year-old skeletons preserved in a cave in modern-day Israel has shown ancient population migrations that fueled some innovation in the Copper Age.
The culture in the Late Chalcolithic in the Levant, often referred to as the Ghassulian society, was different than what came before and after it, and it was because of migrations from peoples in Anatolia and modern-day Iran, according to the new study in the journal Nature Communications.
The Peqi’in Cave in northern Israel is roughly 17 meters long and 5 to 8 meters wide,...