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Papers from the 2008 CECD conference on 'Demography and Cultural Macroevolution' appeared as a special issue of Human Biology, and are now freely available to download under an Open Access agreement: Human Biology April-June 2009...

It has long been something of a mystery how Y-DNA Haplogroup I1 could suddenly pop up in Jutland about 4,000 years ago. Yet Ken Nordtvedt, an expert on the haplogroup, assures us that it did. I suspected that this might have something to do with the hunting-fishing Ertebølle Culture...

Last month I mentioned the intriguing project led by Dr. Eduardo Arroyo Pardo...

Dr. Eduardo Arroyo Pardo leads a team at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid which is aiming to compare ancient DNA from Neolithic sites in Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa with the present populations of the same regions. He wants to clarify the degree to which farming was carried to Europe by the movement...

The Peopling of Europe is already far too long, but I could still add more supplementary pages. What would be most useful? Here's your chance to vote.

For the Migration period I thought a few maps might be handy, together with what we have from DNA and place-names.

There has been so much criss-crossing of the Mediterranean over the...