The research provides new insights into kinship and burial practices in Neolithic times
Archaeologists have drawn up what they believe is the world’s oldest family tree of an extended family found buried together more than 5,000 years ago.
Buy they also believe that other individuals may be step-children, suggesting blended families may be far from a recent phenomenon. The team – which included archaeologists from Newcastle University, and geneticists from the University of the Basque Country, University of Vienna and Harvard University – used this to map the relationships and produced what they say is the the first study to reveal in detail how prehistoric families were structured.
The discovery in the tomb of males whose mother was also in the structure but not their biological father indicates that stepsons were adopted into the lineage, the researchers said.
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