The earliest stage of the Corded Ware culture

[Hors]

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[Psychonaut]

In case you guys hadn't seen it on any of the other forums, several of the skeletons from one of the German Corded Ware sites underwent DNA testing. All three males came back as R1a1. The mtDNA results included H, I, K1a2, K1b, U3, U5, and X2.

The full study can be reviewed here (http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2008/11/17/0807592105.DCSupplemental/0807592105SI.pdf).