The peopling of Europe since the Upper Paleolithic : prehistoric encounters between locals and migrants
Journal: theses.fr (ABES)
Year: 2022

Patterns of genetic diversity in present-day human populations are reflecting the past demographic fluctuations, migrations and admixture in human (pre)history. Paleogenomics, the generation and analysis of genome-wide data from ancient degraded specimens, allows us to study these demographic events by directly accessing time series comprising their occurrence. European prehistory recurrently witnessed population expansions associated with various climatic changes and/or cultural transitions dur