December
24
/ 2021
Genome sequencing of 35 individuals from the best-preserved Neolithic tomb in B Tomb in Englandritain has revealed that 27 of the individuals were the children of 4 women – and just one man! This being so, five generations of a single family are represented, and so the researchers have been able to put together the oldest ever family tree. The new study published in Nature magazine, of a Neolithic chambered tomb burial in Gloucestershire, southwestern England, has carried out genome sequencing on 35 individuals out of the buried 41 there. Of these 35, 22 were adults, and it has been found that they were buried there over the course of a century during Britain’s Neolithic period, over 5,700 years ago
