The origin of the Gravettians: genomic evidence from a 36,000-year-old Eastern European
Journal: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Year: 2019

Abstract The Gravettian technocomplex was present in Europe from more than 30,000 years ago until the Last Glacial Maximum, but the source of this industry and the people who manufactured it remain unsettled. We use genome-wide analysis of a ~36,000-year-old Eastern European individual (BuranKaya3A) from Buran-Kaya III in Crimea, the earliest documented occurrence of the Gravettian, to investigate relationships between population structures of Upper Palaeolithic Europe and the origin and spread