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Tracing the spread of Celtic languages using ancient genomics


Genome-wide data from 4,587 ancient individuals are analysed, focusing on Bronze and Iron Age Europe, to test the extent to which alternative archaeological and linguistic models for the origin and spread of Celtic fit reconstructed demographic histories.

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