Bronze Age Croatian males shared identical Y-haplotypes in patrilocal kin-based necropolis unlike exogamous Neolithic settlement.
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Middle Neolithic community had Early Neolithic-like ancestry with high haplotype diversity and no close relatives. Neolithic population was large and mainly exogamous. Rare endogamous mating produced first-cousin equivalent children. Different Neolithic burial rites showed no genetic ancestry differences. Bronze Age individuals carried distinct high western hunter-gatherer ancestry. Bronze Age ancestry linked to northern Carpathian Basin groups. All Bronze Age males had identical Y chromosome haplotypes. Bronze Age site had two first-degree male relatives. Site included second-degree and distantly related males. Single Bronze Age woman was unrelated to males. Patrilocal organization moved women to husband's home. Kinship determined Bronze Age burial selection. Rich infant graves indicated inherited family status. Neolithic intramural burials selected by age and sex not kinship. Coastal and inland Bronze Age groups had heterogeneous ancestries.

Genetics Europe and the EU Antiquity Demographics Homo Sapiens Science

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