‘Patchwork families’ lived in Europe over 5,000 years ago, Neolithic DNA study finds

More than 5,000 years ago, communities in Central Europe built massive stone tombs that still dominate parts of the landscape. These megalithic monuments from the Late Neolithic period have long been linked with ancestry, family identity, and tightly connected kin groups. A new genetic study suggests a more complicated picture. People buried together in these […]